Exploring Study Futures: The Future of Higher Education from a Student Perspective

ABSTRACT

While the almost complete conversion of university teaching to digital formats in March 2020 initially had a disruptive effect, in the meantime almost all university teachers and learners can look back on numerous experiences with different forms of university learning and teaching. These experiences can contribute to the design of higher education teaching and learning of the future. The article describes an explorative analysis that asks from the students’ point of view which studies from Germany can be identified that give hints and statements about the future of studying from the students’ point of view and what wishes, requirements, preferences are articulated for future higher education teaching. For this purpose, this article collects evidence from studies on higher education teaching and learning of the future and presents the inductively formed category system as the first result of a structuring content analysis, which gives first indications of significant topics, statements and preferences. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.