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With the 2022 data and analytics edition, we further expand our series of Horizon Reports to focus on an emerging area of practice that is driving institutional decision-making and strategic planning for the future—the trends, technologies, and practices that are shaping the world of postsecondary data and analytics. Based on a methodology that grounds the findings in the perspectives and expertise of a panel of leaders in higher education data and analytics, in this report we summarize the panel’s input on the major trends shaping higher education, including panelists’ reflections on the implications of this research for the future of higher education for particular institutional roles. Trends Higher education is in many ways a product of the larger environments and sociocultural contexts surrounding it, as well as of the particular communities and people designing it and participating in it. To capture these larger contextual forces, we asked the Horizon panelists to provide input on the macro trends they believe are shaping the future of postsecondary data and analytics and to provide observable evidence for those trends. To ensure an expansive view of trends outside the walls of higher education, panelists provided input across five trend categories: social, technological, economic, environmental, and political. After several rounds of voting, the panelists selected 15 trends as the most important.

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