F: Conclusions Let’s Predict the Future! A half-day workshop at the SAOIM 2014 conference held on Tuesday 3 June 2014 facilitated by Brian Kelly, Cetis Slides available under a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY) 1 F1: Let’s Predict the Future: Conclusions
Slides on "Let’s Predict the Future: Conclusions" for a workshop session on "Predicting the Future" held on 3 June 2014 at the SAOIM 2014 conference in Pretoria, South Africa and facilitated by Brian Kelly, Cetis.
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F: Conclusions
Let’s Predict the Future!
A half-day workshop at the SAOIM 2014 conference held on Tuesday 3 June 2014 facilitated by Brian Kelly, Cetis
Slides available under a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY)
F1: Let’s Predict the Future:
Conclusions
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Conclusions
To conclude:• Technological developments will continue• User expectations will continue to grow• Organisations will need to be able to respond to
such change• Temptations to assume changes will be managed
and beneficial to organisation
Need for:• Evidence-based mechanisms for detecting changes• Open approaches for interpretting trends and
planning for implications of developments• Ability to be able to respond to the unexpected
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Methodology
Summary of methodology:• Monitor signals of developments and trends:
Quantative: e.g. numerical analyses Qualitative: e.g. literature surveys
• Document mechanisms used for observing trends• Provide interpretations of trends & implications
e.g. see OUseful and UK Web Focus blogs• Use systematic processes within organisation /
sector: Delphi process Scenario planning Open feedback
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Finding Our More (1)
NMC (New Media Consortium):• An international community of
experts in educational technology
Includes:• Practitioners who work with new
technologies every day • Visionaries who are shaping the
future of learning at think tanks, labs, research centers
• Staff and board of directors
Produces many useful reports including forthcoming 2014 Horizon Project Summit report on Future of Academic and Research Libraries
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The 2012 Horizon Project Retreat
Top 10 trends:1. The world of work is increasingly global and
increasingly collaborative.
2. People expect to work, learn, socialise, and play whenever and wherever they want to.
3. The Internet is becoming a global mobile network — and already is at its edges.
4. The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based and delivered over utility networks, facilitating the rapid growth of online videos and rich media.
5. Openness — concepts like open content, open data, and open resources, along with notions of transparency and easy access to data and information — is moving from a trend to a value for much of the world.
In bed?!
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The 2012 Horizon Project Retreat
Top 10 trends:6. Legal notions of ownership and privacy lag behind
the practices common in society.
7. Real challenges of access, efficiency, and scale are redefining what we mean by quality and success.
8. The Internet is constantly challenging us to rethink learning and education, while refining our notion of literacy.
9. There is a rise in informal learning as individual needs are redefining schools, universities, and training.
10. Business models across the education ecosystem are changing.
Leaving the institution
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Finding Our More (2)
IFLA Trend Report:• “a selection of resources
to help you understand where libraries fit into a changing society
• Insights Document summarises information contained on the Trend Report website for IFLA members.
• It identifies five high level trends and considers possible future "collision points" between trends affecting the role and identity of libraries.”
See http://trends.ifla.org/
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IFLA Trends
The IFLA Trends Process
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IFLA Trends
The IFLA Trends Process:
• Highlights privacy as one of the top 5 trends
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IFLA Trends
The IFLA Trends Process:
• Highlights privacy as one of the top 5 trends
• Also highlights opportunities for ‘hyper-connected societies’
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ETAG (Education Technology Action Group)
ETAG: • Exploring short-
and long-term actions for UK Government, educational institutions