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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) How will librarians practically keep up with the digital? (Bryan Alexander)
– 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 we will need to support the great ideas coming our way? (Diana Oblinger)
– 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. (Diana Oblinger)
--IP issues - we're returning to the medieval theme of cloisters, by walling off campus digital environments. At the same time, global projects and functions increase in ease of use, scope, and importance (Web 2.0, GoogleEarth, etc. etc.) How to respond to this enormous division? (Bryan Alexander)
– Student/Teacher Gaps In Tech Use it may grow wider and create more discomfort and dis-satisfaction (Alan Levine)
– Technology Churn Can we live with technologies that recycle, grow, change on a monthly, daily basis, rather than yearly basis? Can we accept not being masters of technology? (Alan Levine)
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Q5. 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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2006 Advisory Board initial responses:
– Timeshifting – technology is allowing us more and more freedom to choose when and where we want to have an experience (Diana Oblinger)
– Distributed Cognition/Social Networking (Diana Oblinger)
– Visualization – 3-D can hold more info than 2-D (Diana Oblinger)
– Increasing Individualization the explosive growth of self-publishing is just one example; Flickr and other online communities also encurage individualization of the experience; peer-to-peer has some interesting social dimensions that faciliate this as well (Diana Oblinger)
– Mobility – People increasingly want their technology to go (Diana Oblinger)
– IP again - see previous notes about walled gardens versus open content (Bryan Alexander) –
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