“The History and Future of Higher Education” CFP

Tom Abeles and his journal On the Horizon are joining the FutureEd movement with a special journal issue.

The rise of the Internet with its globally expanding social networks is creating new, overlapping communities that are significantly different from the sense of community existing throughout human history. The Internet has created new knowledge networks that make the cost of access to information asymptotically approaching zero. It makes that knowledge transferable across geopolitical boundaries. Knowledge that was once carried across land and sea in the heads of scholars and physical media is now accessible in a “smart” phone.

What the future of the University could, should, ought to be cannot be separated from its history, the history of the institution, its faculties/infrastructure, the seekers of knowledge and those who support the institution embedded in the community, local and/or global. How that history has played out in time and as seen in its current embodiment plays into its future, also.

See a list of suggested themes for this CFP and comprehensive submission guidelines at: http://www.hastac.org/opportunities/cfp-history-and-future-higher-education?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hastac%2Fopportunities+%28HASTAC+Opportunities%29