Martin Hamilton - The impact of technology on the higher education sector - LFHE invited talk

The impact of technology on higher educationMartin Hamilton @martin_hamilton

About Jisc

» Not-for-profit company serving research and education:

› 18 million users of shared services like Janet, eduroam, JiscMail, shared data centres

› Devising national deals with IT vendors and publishers,e.g. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Elsevier and Springer

› Providing advice and guidance to the sector on digital technologies in research and education

» My role:

› Leading our Future and Emerging Technologies team, exploring emerging technologies like Augmented Realityand brain computer interfaces

› Helping our members devise and implement their digital strategies, and building the evidence base around new technologies

Martin Hamilton - The impact of technology on higher education - LFHE invited talk

Pepper robot at Jisc Digifest 2017





» My role:



About Jisc







» My role:



About Jisc



Technology and higher education

1. Analog or digital?

2. Future and emerging technologies

3. What’s next for tech in HE?


1. Analog or digital?


Let’s play: How digital are you?


1. You’re reading for pleasure - would you choose an eBook or a paper book, and why?

Where are you a visitor & where are you a resident?(from Jisc Digital Leadership course)




2. Number of times you checked Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, Snapchat etc so far today (be honest!)






3. Would you print papers for a meeting to scribble on, or do it all electronically?






3. Would you print papers for a meeting to scribble on, or do it all electronically?

4. How many email addresses do you have? (that you know about…) Where are you a visitor & where are you a resident?

(from Jisc Digital Leadership course)

Building digital capability

For HE staff to assess themselves and their teams

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/building-digital-capability


https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/building-digital-capability

How digital is your university?


» Most HEIs are putting a great of effort into their digital strategies

» Well adopted IT systems for key business roles, e.g. HR, Finance

» Small number of products are very widely used, e.g. Microsoft’s Office365 for online collaboration

» But lots of corner cases where things don’t talk to each other

› Also processes that should be computerised, or systems should joined up

Image CC BY-SA Ron Scheffler for McMaster University Library

Digital exhaust Intelligent campus

https://futurecities.catapult.org.uk/project/smart-campus-university-of-glasgow/


https://futurecities.catapult.org.uk/project/smart-campus-university-of-glasgow/

Learning analytics Retention and attainment








2. Future and emerging technologies


Let’s play: Utopia or dystopia?


1. Driverless (or self-driving, or autonomous) cars (lorries, buses…)- blessed relief, or frankly terrifying?

Actually Brunel University, even if it looks a bit likesome kind of Martian habitat




2. Space tourism - fancy a weekend break on the moon?






3. Smart homes - from Internet connected locks to toothbrushes






3. Smart homes - from Internet connected locks to toothbrushes

4. DNA editing (CRISPR/Cas9) - we can rebuild you (or your unborn child)


It’s all cats from here…


It’s all cats from here… (and cat monsters!)


It’s all cats from here… (and dogs!)


Trending image from Deep Dream Generator - https://deepdreamgenerator.com/

https://deepdreamgenerator.com/

AI meets Shakespeare


From http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

VIOLA: Why, Salisbury must find his flesh and thoughtThat which I am not aps, not a man and in fire,To show the reining of the raven and the warsTo grace my hand reproach within, and not a fair are hand,That Caesar and my goodly father's world;When I was heaven of presence and our fleets,We spare with hours, but cut thy council I am great,Murdered and by thy master's ready thereMy power to give thee but so much as hell:Some service in the noble bondman here,Would show him to her wine.KING LEAR: O, if you were a feeble sight, the courtesy of your law,Your sight and several breath, will wear the godsWith his heads, and my hands are wonder'd at the deeds,So drop upon your lordship's head, and your opinionShall be against your honour.

http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

Help! My co-worker is a robot


Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user feuilllu

Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user nestle

› Pepper acts as greeter in 140+ SoftBank stores in Japan

› Nestlé planning to introduce in 1000+ sales outlets

Help! My co-worker is a robot


Alexa, order me a warehouse full of robots


Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user greenplasticamy

› Amazon uses over 45,000 robots already in itswarehouses and distribution centres

Alexa, order me a warehouse full of robots


Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user greenplasticamy

› Amazon uses over 45,000 robots already in itswarehouses and distribution centres

3. What’s next for tech in HE?


Lifelong learning and portfolio careers

http://www.stanford2025.com/#fast-forward


http://www.stanford2025.com/#fast-forward

The road to Mars


The road to Mars


The road to Mars


Wrapping up


» HE has to date largely escaped being “disrupted” by technology

» But some tech industries now iterating far quicker than HEIs can keep up with

› What’s your risk appetite?

» New “threats” (like AI) also create new opportunities, and quickly become the norm

› Want to swap your washing machine for a mangle?

» Moral imperative to use tech for good?

Wrapping up








» Discuss!

Wrapping up








» Discuss!

Wrapping up


Mr Shadow – song composed by Sony CSL Research Laboratory’s AI

That’s all folks!

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Connect with me:Martin HamiltonFuturist, Jisc, London

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