What's On the Technology Horizon?

Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath, UK What’s On The Technology Horizon? Technical opportunities available in the ‘New Normal’ UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution 2.0 licence (but note caveat) Acceptable Use Policy Recording this talk, taking photos, discussing the content using Twitter, blogs, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/ili-2011/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/briankelly/ Email: [email_address] Blogs: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/ Twitter: #ili2011 #a101

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Technology Outlook for UK Tertiary Education 2011-2016
Selected highlights from the Technology Outlook for UK Tertiary Education 2011-2016 , a collaboration between the NEW MEDIA CONSORTIUM and the JISC Innovation Support Centres (UKOLN and CETIS)

Develop Your Action Plans Timeframe for adoption: one year or less Area Notes and Actions Mobile and Tablet Computing Cloud Computing Open Content    At end of session we invite suggestions for Library action plans which you feel you should be taking in the various areas. Feel free to tweet your ideas!

Develop Your Action Plans   Timeframe for adoption 2-3 years Area Notes and Actions Game-Based Learning Learning Analytics New Scholarship Semantic Applications

Develop Your Action Plans    Timeframe for adoption 4-5 years Timeframe for adoption 2-3 years Area Actions Augmented Reality Collective Intelligence Smart Objects Telepresence Area Notes and Actions Game-Based Learning Learning Analytics New Scholarship Semantic Applications

It’s Here!
Time-to-Adoption Horizon : One year or less
Cloud Computing
Mobiles
Tablet Computing
Open Content
= I’ll discuss Your Thoughts #ili11 #a101 Why not share your thoughts on Twitter on: (a) relevance to libraries and (b) what you should be doing now    

Be Prepared!
Time-to-Adoption Horizon : Two-three years
Game-based Learning
Learning Analytics
New Scholarship
Semantic Applications
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Keep An Eye On!
Time-to-Adoption Horizon : Four-five years
Augmented reality
Collective Intelligence
Telepresence
Smart Objects


It’s Here!: Cloud Computing
What?
The service / data / infrastructure isn’t hosted within the institution
“ I think there is a world market for maybe five computers ” (Watson, IBM)?
Implications
Policy, legal and cultural assumptions about ownership of IT need addressing
Continue what you’ve been doing with Social Web services

It’s Here!: Mobile / Tablets
What?
Access to the service / data / infrastructure is in your hand; not on your desktop
“ In the future the power of the mainframe computer will be in your pocket ”
Implications
Shouldn’t information professionals be pro-active in using mobile devices?
Are you engaging actively with this talk? Are you tweeting, discussing, …? Do you understand changing dynamics of learning?

It’s Here!: Open Content
What?
Content (including data) which is licensed to permit/encourage reuse
“ In the future we’ll be more efficient by reusing existing information ”
Implications
Particularly relevant for public sector/HE
Are you licensing your content with CC?
Are you using content provided by others? If not, aren’t you being inefficient?

Open Data
Government to ‘force’ Unis to publish data about courses, student experiences, …
Builds on Labour’s Open Gov initiative
An opportunity to be welcomed?
Can take initiative in publishing open data about uses of social media

It’s Coming!: Learning (Academic) Analytics
What?
Measurement, collection, analysis & reporting of data about learners & their contexts, for purposes of understanding & optimising learning & the environments in which it occurs
See also Academic Analytics
Implications
Evidence-based approaches in education
Builds on (open) data
Privacy implications - data can be open but anonymised

Library Learning Analytics
Library Impact Data Project (#lidp):
Funded by JISC as part of Activity Data Programme
“ Is there is a … significant correlation between library activity data & student attainment ?”
See Dave Pattern / Byony Ramsden’s talk later today to find out!
See LIDP project blog ( ) and papers ( )

It’s Coming!: New Scholarship
What?
Pre-publication of research; non-traditional channels; visualisation of data; new ways of peer-reviewing; non-traditional scholarly objects; …
Implications
Addressing limitations of current practices & cultural barriers (no rewards for blogging)
Beyond Impact: ideas for reward mechanisms for researchers beyond traditional peer-reviewed papers
Opportunities for information professionals

Keep Watching!: Collective Intelligence
What?
Knowledge embedded in large groups
Can be explicit e.g. collective intelligence produced Wikipedia
Tacit knowledge can be gathered by analysing data from large numbers over time.
Analysis of tweets to predict
Earthquakes  Flu epidemic (Google search)
Elections  Cultural trends
…

“ Because of the numerous earthquakes and the large number of Twitter users throughout the country, they were able to detect an earthquake with high probability (96% of earthquakes of Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) seismic intensity scale 3 or more are detected) merely by monitoring tweets.”
Twitter is full of trivia? Can you afford not to engage?

Using Twitter, Facebook status updates, Google search terms, … to:
Make predictions: earthquakes, flu epidemics, riots, …
Implications for libraries, for society? From the expert (the Chief Librarian, CIO, …) to the crowds
Take actions: making plans for evacuation, medical supplies, arresting dissidents?

Keeping up-to-date with ‘weak signals’: using Scoop.it to curate stories weeky about Collective Intelligence
http://www.scoop.it/t/about-collective-intelligence Note personal curaration for keeping informed is done in the open – openness should be happening now!

Your Action Plans Area Notes and Actions Mobile and Tablet Computing Personal use of mobile phones & tablets in order to gain experiences of new working practices; experiences of accessing library services, etc. Update Acceptable Use Policies to address use of mobile devices. Update Web developments tools and standards to ensure mobile access is treated as ‘first class citizen’. Cloud Computing Staff development to provide better understanding of Cloud Computing concepts and implications. Update Acceptable Use Policies to address use of cloud services. Ensure potential risks are understood as well as opportunities. Develop risk minimisation strategies. Open Content Staff development to provide better understanding of open data as well as open access including licensing issues for open content. Understand personal and organisational barriers to provision of open content as well as consuming open content. Seek ways in which the Library can provide open content.

Your Action Plans Area Actions Augmented Reality Collective Intelligence Smart Objects Telepresence Area Notes and Actions Game-Based Learning Learning Analytics New Scholarship Semantic Applications

Implications For You
What should you be doing:
Using the technologies which have arrived (mobile, tablet, Cloud, open content)
Ensuring that you have appropriate policies, plans, updated AUPs, etc.
Provide staff development/awareness raising for technologies arriving < 3 years
Encourage staff with interests in new technologies to continue horizon-scanning
“ It’s science fiction? ” Look at how technologies have transformed Library landscape in 13 years of ILI. Will this slow down?

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