Dr. Brad WheelerVice President for IT & CIO,

Dean, & Professor

Indiana University

bwheeler@iu.edu ovpit.iu.edu

Leading Ahead of the Curves

© 2008 Brad Wheeler. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

The Curves

Technical Possibility

Social Desirability

Economic Feasibility

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

Question:

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”

Hmm…. I wonder if a ChaCha guide could

have found that James Bryant Conant

quote?

(www.chacha.com)

Search at IU

… More Search at IU

… And More Search at IU

and…Research Disciplines Search at IU

Guided Search….Projects

Guided Search: a Platform for 21st Century

search.iu.edu

Search Pyramid

“Better Than Free”

www.kk.org

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/copy-transmission.jpg

“When copies are super abundant, stuff which can’t be copied becomes scarce and valuable.”--Kevin Kelly (2008)

Generatives: Immediacy, Personalization,Interpretation, Authenticity, Embodiment.Patronage, Findability

Community Source

Curve Bender Example #3

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

Dr. Brad WheelerVice President for IT & CIO,

Dean, & Professor

Indiana University

bwheeler@iu.edu ovpit.iu.edu

Leading Ahead of the Curves