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2006 Advisory Board initial responses:
– Information Literacy – in the way librarians use the term. Do students have the cognitive basis to know good information when they find it? Info Literacy has three components: technical, cognitive, and ethical – the last one, ethical, is especially challenging in a remix culture where attribution is less valued than in the past (Diana Oblinger)
– Digital Divide – while not a new trend, still very importabt socially (Diana Oblinger)
– Support – All of us are becoming less expert. Are we growing that cadre of people that ww will need to support the great ideas coming our way?
– Science and Technology Leadership – we are not graduating or attracting the numbers of people we need in the sciences, and are falling further behind all the time. We need a "Sputnik" episode to wake us up.
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What trends do you expect to have a significant impact on the ways in which colleges and universities approach their core missions of teaching and research?
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