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Campus TechnologyOctober 23, 2007“Five factors will change the way that IT organizations operate, according to Gartner Inc. The points of change cited by the research firm include • Web 2.0-style applications, • software as a service (SaaS), • global-class computing, • the "consumerization" of IT and • open source software.
The five factors will have a synergistic effect, according to Tom Austin, Gartner's vice president, who refers to them as discontinuities.”
Edvard Munch, “The Scream”, 1893 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_Scream.jpg
Can our actions substantively affect the shape of the curves or do we just adapt as they are revealed?
Curve Bending Examples
Open Educational
Resources/Scholarship
Curve Bender Example #1
“…we are seeing the early emergence of a meta-university – a transcendent, accessible, empowering, dynamic, communally constructed framework of open materials and platforms on which much of higher education worldwide can be constructed or enhanced.”
EDUCAUSE Review, May/June 2006, p. 30.
Charles M. VestPresident Emeritus, MIT
Gateway to IU’s open content…. open.iu.edu
In Search of Certitude
Curve Bender Example #2
Projecting our Expertise to our Community via a Commercial
Alliance
I need to find a quote: Something like “the way to advance science is to hire men of brilliance, back them heavily, and leave them alone?” Who? When? Where?
“There is only one proven method of assisting the advancement of pure science – that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily and leaving them to direct themselves”
Developing and Sustaining Software Together to Control
our Destiny
The Cathedral
The Bazaar
Classic Models of Software Production
A hole….
Need for a Hybrid Model
…Community Source
“The Pub…the Place Between the Cathedral and the Bazaar”
IU Community Source Engagements
Licensing Terms
Curve Bender Example #4
A work in progress
The rise of IT, digital repositories, and electronic collaboration in achieving and improving the quality of the scholarly endeavors of research, teaching and learning, and service.
Scholarship 2.0
Wheeler, B.C. (2007) Open Source 2010: Reflections on 2007, EDUCAUSE Review, January/February, (42:1), 48-67