This document summarizes Robin Rice's presentation on copyright, technology and culture given at the University of Edinburgh on June 8, 2012. The presentation covered openness in academic culture, governments' role in promoting open access, the impact of software and technology on industries and the economy, and predictions for how technology will shape the future of higher education. Key points included the slow adoption of open scholarship practices by academics, the importance of government action and funding requirements in advancing open access, and the growing demand for coding skills and "nerdpreneurs" in today's technology-driven economy.
Want to be indispensible and highly marketable professionally? Be a source of new ideas and knowledge. Since knowledge is a driving force in innovation and business competitiveness, being an avid learner is a must in today's dynamic business environment. This presentation introduces open educational resources and how to use social media to create a personal learning network. Presented at the Business Women's Forum, Harrisburg PA 4/28/11.
Bretton Woods of the Knowledge Economy - IFKAD Keynote 2009 (Scotland)Debra M. Amidon
This presentation poses the current economic meltdown in a 'trapeze parable' - suspension between the old rules that do not apply and the new ones to be innovated. Content includes: the new Triple Knowledge Lens (TKL) for performance, provides a tour of Knowledge Innovation Zones (KIZ) worldwide, and suggests a P7 KIZ Blueprint to operationalize knowledge innovation programs. The conclusion makes the case for a new Bretton Woods to capitalize upon the challenges and opportunities afforded by a Knowledge Economy.
Connectivism: Navigating through Cultural & Social LayersAsako Yoshida
This is my final project for CCK09 course that was offered in the Fall 2009 from Extended Education, University of Manitoba. The course was facilitated by Stephen Downes & George Siemens.
Want to be indispensible and highly marketable professionally? Be a source of new ideas and knowledge. Since knowledge is a driving force in innovation and business competitiveness, being an avid learner is a must in today's dynamic business environment. This presentation introduces open educational resources and how to use social media to create a personal learning network. Presented at the Business Women's Forum, Harrisburg PA 4/28/11.
Bretton Woods of the Knowledge Economy - IFKAD Keynote 2009 (Scotland)Debra M. Amidon
This presentation poses the current economic meltdown in a 'trapeze parable' - suspension between the old rules that do not apply and the new ones to be innovated. Content includes: the new Triple Knowledge Lens (TKL) for performance, provides a tour of Knowledge Innovation Zones (KIZ) worldwide, and suggests a P7 KIZ Blueprint to operationalize knowledge innovation programs. The conclusion makes the case for a new Bretton Woods to capitalize upon the challenges and opportunities afforded by a Knowledge Economy.
Connectivism: Navigating through Cultural & Social LayersAsako Yoshida
This is my final project for CCK09 course that was offered in the Fall 2009 from Extended Education, University of Manitoba. The course was facilitated by Stephen Downes & George Siemens.
This powerpoint is a project we had to do on Digital Divide. :) Enjoy! btw, credit the works
By: Megan, Noah and Jessendra
do not copyright
you will be punished
:D
A presentation about definition, extent and reasons for digital divide, impact of the web and attempts to bridge the digital divide. I gave this speech in my ESL class at Portland State University in December 2008
This presentation discusses the social political economy of information and communication technology. The discussion looks at the evolution of mobile technology-mobile communication technology, mobile computing and telecommunication. The discussion is to look at convergence in ICT and how it is impacting on economic growth.
Helping the Needy Get Nerdy: Introduction to Free Geek Providence saranicole1980
This was shown at the FGPVD Open House and describes our mission of helping the needy get nerdy by refurbishing computers and donating them to needy individuals and nonprofits.
This powerpoint is a project we had to do on Digital Divide. :) Enjoy! btw, credit the works
By: Megan, Noah and Jessendra
do not copyright
you will be punished
:D
A presentation about definition, extent and reasons for digital divide, impact of the web and attempts to bridge the digital divide. I gave this speech in my ESL class at Portland State University in December 2008
This presentation discusses the social political economy of information and communication technology. The discussion looks at the evolution of mobile technology-mobile communication technology, mobile computing and telecommunication. The discussion is to look at convergence in ICT and how it is impacting on economic growth.
Helping the Needy Get Nerdy: Introduction to Free Geek Providence saranicole1980
This was shown at the FGPVD Open House and describes our mission of helping the needy get nerdy by refurbishing computers and donating them to needy individuals and nonprofits.
The "Supporting Students with TEL" is a module within the PGCLT(HE) at Canterbury Christ Church University. This is the presentation that was given to academic staff that puts TEL in an historical and cultural context before looking at what CCCU does now
Desafios e Oportunidades derivados da Explosao de Dados (Big Data)Francisco Pires
Apresentação : "Desafios e Oportunidades derivados da Explosão de Dados (Big Data) ": nas Jornadas ANPRI - Associação Nacional dos Profissionais de Informática - em Coimbra no dia 16 de Junho de 2012 - Por Francisco Lavrador Pires : FB - https://www.facebook.com/francisco.l.pires ; Twitter @flpires
Promoting Metaliteracy and Metacognition in Collaborative Teaching and LearningTom Mackey
Trudi Jacobson and Tom Mackey present on metaliteracy as part of a panel at the NOLA Information Literacy Collective on Friday, August 11, 2017. This virtual presentation defines metaliteracy, discusses the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, and examines the metaliteracy learning goals and objectives. Specific metaliteracy related projects such as the competency based digital badging system and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are examined as well.
By current estimates, we’re about a decade away from having exascale computing capability. That’s a pretty long time – especially in our world of HPC. What will the world be like in 2022? What form will exascale computing take when it’s real? These are difficult questions to answer. Never before has the HPC community focused so intensely on a machine so far beyond its grasp. Nevertheless, stalwart cadres around the globe are drafting strategies, plans, and roadmaps to get from here to exascale. So, what about the rest of us? Are there useful things we could do while waiting - or instead of waiting - for exascale? Perhaps there are. In this talk we’ll take a look at a few possibilities, including:
• Education
• eScience
• Big Data
• Broad HPC Deployment
• Computing in Industry
• Public Engagement
• Infrastructure Development and Build Out
• Success Metrics
Exascale computing may be a decade away, but there’s a lot to accomplish to be ready to exploit it. We’ll explore a few options here. We make no claim that these constitute the right agenda for the coming decade – nor do we suggest that we’ve given an exhaustive to-do list. Our intention is rather to open the conversation about what we should do while “waiting” for exascale.
Aprendizaje invisible: alfabetismos para un mundo plano.
Cristóbal Cobo,coautor do libro "Aprendizaxe invisible, hacia unha nova ecoloxía da educación", preséntanos o webinar : "Aprendizaxe invisible: alfabetismos para un mundo plano".
Estás preparado para desaprender e enfrentarte a un nov remix de innovadoras paradigmas de aprendizaxe e desenvolvemento do capital humano?
Cristóbal Cobo é investigador do Oxford Internet Institute. Entre 2005 e 2010 foi profesor-investigador de FLACSO-México.Na Universidade Autónoma de Barcelona titulouse aos 29 anos cunha distinción "cum laude " de doctorado, ao desenvolver modelos experimentais para optimiza a interación entre persoa e máquina.Foi evaluador de políticas públicas para o goberno Mexicano en novas tecnoloxías e educación. Xunto a Hugo Pardo publicou "Planeta Web 2.0" que a día de hoxe rexistra máis de 170.000 descargas. No ano 2009 conseguíu unha beca pola Universidade de Oxford para realizar unha investigación sobre políticas públicas europeas e o desenvolvemento de competencias dixitais. En 2010 nombrárono membro do consello asesor do Informe Horizon Iberoamérica, estudo global que desenvolve o "The New Media Consortium".
“Open Research Data: Implications for Science and Society”, Warsaw, Poland, May 28–29, 2015, conference organized by the Open Science Platform — an initiative of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling at the University of Warsaw. pon.edu.pl @OpenSciPlatform #ORD2015
Many experts say the rise of embedded and wearable computing will bring the next revolution in digital technology. They say the upsides are enhanced health, convenience, productivity, safety, and more useful information for people/organizations. The downsides: challenges to personal privacy, over-hyped expectations, and boggling tech complexity. Lee Rainie shares the latest research from Pew about libraries and puts it into context with the expanding Internet of Things.
This presentation discusses educational innovation. It encompasses, digital literacy, future studies, globalization, innovation, blended learning, MOOCs, distance learning, flipped classroom, mash-ups, Bauman's disease. Educational innovation is including a drastically different student in drastically different times with an unknown future - education must prepare students for a global job market that will demand for highly developed critical analysis and lateral thinking skills. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me...
Securing, storing and enabling safe access to dataRobin Rice
Invited talk as part of Westminster Insight Research Data Management Forum, https://www.westminsterinsight.co.uk/event/3416/Research_Data_Management_Forum
Staffing Research Data Services at University of EdinburghRobin Rice
Invited remote talk for Georg-August University of Göttingen workshop: RDM costs and efforts on 28 May in Göttingen. Organised by the project Göttingen Research Data Exploratory (GRAcE).
RDM Roadmap to the Future, or: Lords and Ladies of the DataRobin Rice
Story of the new 2017-2020 University of Edinburgh RDM Roadmap, with a Tolkienesque theme for IASSIST-CARTO 2018 in Montreal: "Once upon a data point: sustaining our data storytellers".
Providing research data services in changing timesRobin Rice
Lightning talk given at UKSG 2018 conference in Glasgow. (See notes field for most of content.)
Conference site: https://www.uksg.org/event/conference18
‘Good, better, best’? Examining the range and rationales of institutional dat...Robin Rice
Introduction to panel presentations from Universities of Edinburgh, Southampton, Yale, Cornell at IPRES 2015 conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 3 Nov 2015
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
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Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 preview
Panel on Copyright, Technology and Culture
1. Panel on Copyright, Technology
and Culture
SCRIPT: Law and Transformation
University of Edinburgh
8 June 2012
Robin Rice, r.rice@ed.ac.uk
Data Librarian
EDINA
2. Overview
• Intro: my base at EDINA and Data Library
• Openness and academic culture
• Governments‟ role in promoting OA
• “Software is eating the world”
• “Is this the nerd economy?”
• Tech and the future of Higher Education
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3. EDINA at the University of Edinburgh
EDINA staff on its 15th birthday (January, 2010)
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4. Data Library service, Uni of Edinburgh
Helping
researchers:
• find data
• use data
• manage &
share data
• managing
Images by ChartsBin and
mkandlez on flickr
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5. Openness and academic culture (1)
• Despite enthusiasm of early adopters in
open scholarship, academic culture is
steeped in norms and slow to change.
• Academic rewards are not yet geared
towards openness.
Openness
by PSD
on flickr
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6. Openness and academic culture (2)
• Unexamined
relationship with
publishers (on
copyright, peer
review, price).
• Adoption of „open
scholarship‟ and
sharing practices are
dependent on
generational and
disciplinary effects
Copyright Symbols by MikeBlogs on flickr
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7. Governments‟ role in promoting OA
• Government action on open access can be
traced back to principle of public access to
publicly funded research.
• US government and funders (NIH, NSF) have
raised the bar internationally.
• National and local govt‟s are opening up their
own data, setting a good example.
• David Willetts‟ recent speech to the
Publishers Association have raised
expectations in the UK.
• The EC is demanding compliance with open
access for funded research projects.
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8. “Software is eating the world” (1)
“Six decades into the computer
revolution, four decades since the
invention of the microprocessor, and
two decades into the rise of the modern
Internet, all of the technology required
to transform industries through
software finally works and can be
widely delivered at global scale.”
-Marc Andreessen, co-founder Netscape,
in Wall Street Journal, August 2011
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9. “Is this the „Nerd Economy‟?” (1)
“The future of the
economy and
economic recovery lies
with the „nerds‟-
specifically, those
nerds that code. And
this is a good thing.
They are smart. There
has never been a
better time to be a
New Relic is giving away
these t-shirts with a free
nerdpreneur.”
trial of their software. - Patrick Moran, New Relic blog
post, April 2012
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10. Is this the „Nerd Economy‟? (2)
• “Coding is as hot as it‟s ever been and yet
we graduated more students with CSci
degrees in The Year of Our Orwell as we do
today”
• “Some of the most innovative companies on
the planet are starved for talent while at the
same time job prospects for new college
graduates are pretty bleak. What will it take
to resolve that paradox?”
-John Bischke, “They Ain‟t Making Any More of Them:
The Great Engineering Shortage of 2012”, Tech
Crunch, Apr. 2012
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11. Tech and the future of Higher Education (1)
1. The concept of „digital‟ will fade
2. There will be even more personalisation of
technology
3. The boundaries between formal research
and scholarship, formal education and
training will become increasingly blurred
4. The „added value‟ of face to face educational
experiences will start to break down (?!)
Sarah Porter, head of innovation at JISC, shares her view of
the future: “Seven predictions for our technology-enabled
universities.” JISC Inform, Issue 33 (2012)
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12. Tech and the future of Higher Education (2)
5. The digital environment will provide more
opportunities for institutions to provide an
enhanced and customised student
experience
6. More organisations will accredit chunks of
learning
7. Organisations will think about services, not
systems
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Editor's Notes
EDINA is a UK national academic data centre, designated by JISC on behalf of UK funding bodies to support the activity of universities, colleges and research institutes in the UK, by delivering access to a range of online data services ...EDINA is based at the University of Edinburgh. Together with the University Data Library, it is a division of Information Services.
Rewards are still focused on ‘publish or perish’. But the new focus on impact may help make the open access and sharing route more attractive.
e.g. depositing in Arxiv for Physics community.Generational effects not always intuitive, e.g. senior academics may feel more leeway to share, having achieved their career status.
Governments’ role has been huge in pushing the boundaries of open access and providing the drivers, along with funders.Of course, governments are influenced by the public, who are increasingly demanding free access to research literature and data.
“Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded. In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries—without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees. With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired—the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later.”
“Another prime example is if Facebook were developed today, it would be a mobile app. If it was designed in the 1990s it would have been a CD-ROM. Nine years ago it was developed as a web based service, which even then was ahead of it’s time. Like it or not, the Internet has become the operating system of choice for software developers. And like it or not, software is increasingly becoming less important than the data that drives it. What we’re witnessing is a rapid decoupling of traditional software to a data driven web services world managed by an ever increasing cloud of connected devices.” - Reuven Cohen, “The Cloud is Eating the World,” Forbes, 14 May 2012.
“In 2009 the U.S. graduated 89,140 students in the visual and performing arts, more than in computer science, math and chemical engineering combined and more than double the number of visual and performing arts graduates in 1985.”
Digital devices and content are already becoming a pervasive part of our lives.Users will will increasingly have integrated devices that they use for many different social and leisure pursuits as well as for their education and their paid work....As the ‘network effect’ – the connections of people with all kinds of content at a global level – continues to expand, how content is created and shared will continue to grow. ...Users may contribute to informal learning networks through content that they share, either as part of their formal research or as informal interest – for example, charitable work.As the quality of online content improves, and social technologies become ever more sophisticated online learning will become a mainstream option, using, for example,high quality, low cost, multi-person video conferencing on mobile devices. In a world where flexibility and choice are valued increasingly, and where people are increasingly comfortable with complex social interactions through technical environments, students and their parents will be less focused upon a face-to-face experience and more interested in the other benefits that can be offered in terms of choice, quality of support, flexibility, employability.
5. Intelligent, data-driven systems will work with the student to support them, to analyse their learning behaviour, to propose resources that may help with areas of weakness or further develop areas of interest.6. As the formal boundaries around knowledge break down, and the ability to provide a good educational experience without needing to invest in real estate becomes achievable, modular accreditation will grow. There will be more partnerships between commercial and non-commercial organisations, courses will be made available in more flexible formats ...7. The organisational processes will only survive if they make the provider more competitive, able to offer higher quality experiences, more focused on the changing needs of the end beneficiary – and whoever is paying for the educational experience. Institutional systems will need to be highly flexible and able to conduct real-time transactions with many partners and beneficiaries.