Abstract:

The main goal of this survey is to get a better understanding of the perceptions of university professors, or instructors, administrators, educators who are members in the association of teacher education and graduate school students who are in Philippine higher education about the trends, challenges and information technologies developments in relation to their role as educators. Building on the work of a panel of higher education experts under the responsibility of Adams Becker et al (2017) from The New Media Consortium whose studies focused on the six important trends expected to impact the education sector, six challenges faced by policy makers, managers  and teachers   and six significant developments to come in the next few years.   In order to assess the perception of the people on the field, a questionnaire was derived from the topics used in the expert report. This questionnaire is composed of three sections:  trends (16 items), challenges (19 items) and developments in technology (20 items). The fourth section dwells on the socio-demographic profile of the respondents.   This paper aims at verifying if the conclusions of the experts in an American context can find echo on the Philippines field.  Results indicate that Philippines educators have similar perceptions as the international experts in terms of trends accelerating the adoption of technology in higher education, challenges to new education vision and the importance of coming developments in technology for higher education. The revolution and emergence of the new paradigm in education brought by technology as catalyst of change is something that Filipino educators look forward and develop through innovation.