chris batt digital leaders event 03 03-11
DESCRIPTION
Short presentation given at the learning workshop of the third Digital Leaders' Programme event, HM Treasury, 3rd March 2011TRANSCRIPT
Opening up the Academy
Chris Batt
Senior Research Fellow
University College London
A landscape of paradox
NATIONAL SERVICES NATIONAL OFFERS
Janet network
JISC
JISC Collections
R and D outcomes
Large impact
• All activities linked to sectors’ priorities
• Leadership through routes to best practice
• R & D = horizon scanning and thought leadership
“Communities are full of people with hidden depths of knowledge and experience”
“The global community is as anonymous as the user wishes and someone who lacks formal education may communicate on equal terms with the professor”
The Phantom Carnation Grower
“How does someone with such self-discovered, self-taught skills thrive and enrich them?”
HE/FEHE/FE
wider public
“Megaphones of informal learning”
Martin Bean
• Low cost
• New audiences
• Blending formal and informal learning through life
Do we need competition?
“Megaphones of informal learning”
Martin Bean
Images of 1m galaxies from Sloane Sky Survey
Day 1: 70k classifications per hour
Year 1: 50m classifications from 150k people
Hanny van Arkel’s Voorwerp Green peas
• [email protected]• www.digital-futures.org• http://www.slideshare.net/Chris_Batt• chrisbatt.wordpress.com• Twitter: @chrisbatt
HE/FEHE/FE
wider public
What does this mean for the future of HE (and for us)?
What does this mean for the future of HE (and for us)?