Futures thinking for academic librarians: higher education in 2025 is a new report that offers 26 possible future scenarios for HE in the year 2025. Here’s one…
Pop-up campus:
Given the explosion of online learning, only a minority of institutions still maintain physical campuses. While all the services and functions remain, “the college” and “the library” exist only virtually, with no physical home. Higher education emulates retail with “pop-up” work/class spaces, used temporarily when students congregate regionally at the beginning of the term. Then the equipment is disassembled and stored until the next need for rental space arises. Faculty and staff work from home-based offices or in rented office space.
