HASTAC FutureEd Initiative Participant Portal

The FutureEd Initiative is an open, worldwide, and user-inspired initiative that assesses the educational legacies we’ve inherited in order to design new ways of learning for present needs and future aspirations. It is led by those with the most at stake in transforming higher education: students and faculty.

More than 70 courses, workshops, events, and reading groups, in different locations and online, all open to the public, were created by members of the HASTAC alliance on “The History and Future of Higher Education”. To see the list of participating activities and institutions, and to read their posts, please visit the FutureEd Collection.

Participate Now!

Anyone can contribute a course, event, or resource. To join the movement, you can:

Register on hastac.org (Registration is free and open.)
Join the #FutureEd group (find out how)
Post your content to the FutureEd group (find out how)
Crowdsource your ideas and success stories on HASTAC’s collaborative wikis:

Bibliography of Resources Wiki

Contribute to a growing international list of books, articles, journals, websites, and other resources about the future of higher education.

Pedagogical Innovations Wiki

Share your strategies and success stories for making the classroom engaged, interactive and open. Tell us about the methods and models you are using in your classroom to transform the way we teach and learn.

Institutional Changes Wiki

Add your idead, successful models, and road maps for leading change and scaling innovation across a learning or educational institution.

Want to follow along?

There are many ways to keep up with all the FutureEd activities. You can:

Register for the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)

Free, open, and with no prerequisites, a MOOC on “The History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education” begins on January 27, 2014. Sponsored by Duke University through the Coursera platform, this open non-credit course will extend our reach to an anticipated audience of tens of thousands of participants worldwide. The MOOC is also integrated with face-to-face courses at Duke University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara (see the infoGraphic).

Check out the Press

For the Chronicle of Higher Education’s weekly updates (January to April 2014), written by graduate student leaders at Duke University, see “#FutureEd: Thoughts from a MOOC on Higher Education.”
Inside Higher Ed is also following us. See, "50,000 Strong to Change Higher Ed" (Nov 4, 2013; follow-up Feb 2014). For an overview with infographic, see “It’s Not a MOOC, It’s a Movement,” in Higher Ed Beta by Steven Mintz and Michael Patrick Rutter.

Follow the Online Discussion Group

Anyone registered to hastac.org (it's free and open) can join the HASTAC #FutureEd Discussion Group, where you can post your syllabus, a discussion topic, or any other ideas/information.