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Vision 2010 project background

What is Vision 2010?
A brief overview of the project's history, with links to many of the Vision 2010 products

Project History
A detailed description of the project thus far, with an exhaustive list of the products it has created
Carnegie Report
A November 1995 interim report on the project's progress to the Carnegie Foundation, the source of funding for the Vision 2010 project
Mission Statement
The Vision 2010 project's original mission statement

How to fly this thing
A list of tips on making the most efficient and productive use of this Web site, inlcuding tips on navigating, must-see pages, and using special features of this site

Site map
A graphical, color-coded map of most of this site's pages, showing major links between pages and stacking overview pages on top of in-depth pages -- a click on a page in this map will take you to the actual page
Table of contents
This here page
Registration form
A form for adding your name to our registry of Vision 2010 online participants

Commentary by Richard Lanham
A review of the scenario-creation process by a UCLA professor emeritus who was among the participants most involved in that process -- includes the best explanations of what the matrix axes represent

Vision 2010 Scenario Development

Building Scenarios
A step-by-step, diagrammed guide to creating planning scenarios

Key factors
A list of the micro-and macro-environmental forces that seminar participants believe will significantly affect the future of higher education -- seminar participants ranked these factors for import and clustered the most significant factors into three sets
AAU Presidents Meeting
A summary of the transcript of the September 1994 Vision 2010 meeting with presidents from American Association of Universities institutions -- this meeting helped set the Vision 2010 agenda
New Orleans seminar
A summary of the transcript of the January 1995 Vision 2010 seminar -- this seminar created the original set of Vision 2010 transcripts
Chicago seminar
A summary of the transcript of the May 1995 Vision 2010 seminar -- this seminar refined and extended the scenarios that had been created in New Orleans
AAU Provosts Meeting
A summary of the transcript of the September 1995 Vision 2010 meeting with provosts from American Association of Universities institutions -- the group reviewed the scenarios and the process

The Matrix
The central device around which the four Vision 2010 scenarios were structured -- each quadrant in the matrix represents the conjunction of either high or low competition with high or low digital literacy -- one scenario has been created for each quadrant

Northwest Scenario
"Higher Education: It's Not Just for College Students Anymore" -- digital literacy is low in this quadrant, but competition is high
Northeast Scenario
"It Can't Happen Here" -- high digital literacy, high competition -- brave new world
Southeast Scenario
"Old Wine, (Fewer) New Bottles" -- digital information technologies have transformed higher education, but at least the competitors have familiar faces
Southwest Scenario
"Millenial Fizzle" -- same old, same old
Digital Literacy: Are You Digitally Literate?
An explanation of what is meant by "digital literacy," which is the label applied to the x-axis of the matrix -- includes an extensive history of the seminar discussions surrounding this topic and a link to the current online discussion of it
Competition: Yale vs. Microsoft--The Shape of Things to Come?
An explanation of what is meant by "competition," which is the label applied to the y-axis of the matrix -- includes an extensive history of the seminar discussions surrounding this topic and a link to the current online discussion of it

Vision 2010 Online Discussions

Join the discussion
A page of links to all of the Vision 2010 discussions, both limited- and long-term

Digital Literacy discussion
A discussion of how digital information technologies may change the nature of teaching, learning, and research in higher education
Competition discussion
A discussion of where universities' competition may come from in the coming decade
Discussion on Preparing Universities for Change
A discussion on ways to help universities prepare for the changes digital technologies will bring
Scenario-response forum
A long-term forum for responding to the four Vision 2010 scenarios
Forum 2010
A long-term forum for discussing the goals, methods, and future of the Vision 2010 project

Vision 2010 Online Resources and Databases

Annotated Bibliography
An annotated database of books and articles concerned with the effects of digital information technologies on higher education -- many of the articles are now online and are hyperlinked here
Multimediucation
A page of links to notable uses of the World Wide Web for educational purposes -- we encourage you to post links of your own here
What news?
A page of news items appropos of Vision 2010 concerns -- we encourage you to post links of your own here
Who's talking
A listing of participants in the Vision 2010 seminars and meetings
Online registry
A registry or guest book for online discussion participants



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