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Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!Conclusions
we are on a roller-coaster in the dark - our eyes need to get used to the dark
we might as well get as close to the front as we can so that we can see better and to have more fun
but, can only do that within reason
because there is a necessary hype-curve gap between those at the bleeding edge and those, like IT services, who need to run real services
experiment with what is out there
see yourselves as enablers as well as providers6 months ago
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Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!Slide 10
I hope this presentation hasn’t given the impression of trivialising the issues here
universities are complex orgs with complex requirements
ensuring high-quality research and teaching, management the scholarly record, dealing with QAA type issues and so on
on the other hand, it is not unusual for orgs under threat of disruption by new technology to assume that they are somehow immune
Brian suggested that we can "learn to stop worrying about web 2.0". I’m going to suggest more or less the opposite. I think that we need to "learn why we should start worrying"6 months ago
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Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!Slide 9
least comfortable with this part of the talk
shared service agenda in wider public sector
we have been pretty good, largely thanks to coordinating role of JISC
Athens, Chest, JISCMail, the national data centres, the JANET infrastructure and so on
SS and Web 2.0 both result in users going outside the institution to external services to get things done
SS driven by the institution
Web 2.0 driven by the individual
what’s different is who is in control
and what the business drivers of the third-party service are
Google Apps a good example here
could see individuals, departments, or even whole universities outsourcing their email and office provision
not just application layer – could outsource storage and compute power as well – Amazon S3
all of which is potentially very disruptive
not just to institutions but to current shared service providers like Eduserv and the JISC-funded services6 months ago
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Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!Slide 8
...ignores the impact of social networking
our community tends to consider ‘content’ in isolation from the ‘social networks’ that need to build around that content
what web 2.0 tells us is that building social networks around content is critical – Flickr, Slideshare, YouTube, etc.
global concentration works
building institutional services prevents social networks forming6 months ago
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Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!Slide 7
big agenda currently around open access to scholarly material
seen most obviously in
IR, scholarly publications, the OA movement and the associated political agenda
open data – open access to research data of one kind or another
re-usable learning objects
solutions tend to be institutional – seeing the institution as the natural home for curating and exposing its stuff – though not always - JORUM
but…6 months ago
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Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!Slide 6
at CETIS conference in Birmingham a while ago
Ian Stinson talked about the IT services perspective and the UCISA top 10 issues list
talked in part about VLEs and how critical they have become to the institution
yet… much of the meeting was about how VLEs are not meeting learner’s needs pedagogically
PLEs and PREs
putting the user in control of the tools they use
going out and using external Web 2.0 services
drawing the treads beck together internally6 months ago
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Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!Slide 5
so, I want to briefly touch on 4 themes in remainder of this talk
when I blogged the talk I only had three
but an extra one seemed to fall out in the wash
these themes are some of the things that I see getting talked about a lot in elearning and eresearch circles
I hope I’m not teaching my grandmother to such eggs at this point6 months ago
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Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!Slide 4
to a certain extent… these presentations are from the outside looking in
Brian and I have both worked in for IT services
but it was some time ago
I cut my teeth at the Uni of Bath
first job was to connect a Camtec PAD to a GEC X.25 switch
hope that brings a useful perspective
eduserv charitable mission… working with yourselves6 months ago
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Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services are Dead, Long Live IT Services 2.0!Slide 3
Wikipedia: “A digital native is a person who has grown up with digital technology such as computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3.”
is that a useful notion? I don’t think so
I am not one – first use of mainframe computer in 78, first email over JANET in 84, and so on
JISC study into the Google Generation showed that while ‘young people’ may understand the mechanics of using technology – not nec. to best advantage
more useful – see tech as a way of getting a job done vs. being scared of it6 months ago
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Using Second Life to support eventsNote that this presentation was part of an hour-long session with both a RL and SL audience - it therefore doesn’t capture everything that happened in the session.2 years ago
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Does metadata matter?Actually z39.50 was supplemented by these some time ago - and various other things such as OpenSearch have come along since.2 years ago
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Does metadata matter?Actually z39.50 was supplemented by these some time ago - and various other things such as OpenSearch have come along since.2 years ago
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Web 2.0 and repositories - have we got our repository architecture right?Images used in this slide show:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/729822/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/estherase/128983854/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bwr/327994546/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pbo31/96243148/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/303503677/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/good_day/212468675/2 years ago
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Eduserv Foundation SL projectsOnline Learning in Virtual Environments with Sloodle
Daniel Livingstone & Jeremy Kemp
Email: daniel.livingstone@paisley.ac.uk
Web: http://www.sloodle.com/
Wiki: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/sl/index.php/Sloodle
SL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/21/2273 years ago
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Eduserv Foundation SL projectshttp://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation
http://efoundations.typepad.com/
http://artfossett.blogspot.com/
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduserv%20Island/97/41/303 years ago
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