Information Lust Paul Gandel Syracuse University 1 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Technology Landscape Continues to Astound and Challenge At the threshold of almost unlimited possibilities: – We can expect to see computing power and bandwidth continue to increase into the foreseeable future – New tools for analysis and collaboration – Seemingly unlimited capacity to collect and store information digitally 2 Gandel CONCERT 2010

No S Curve in the Future! Technology continues to grow exponentially Predictability is uncertain How do you engage in this huge flow 3 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Key Technology Trends New Digital Infrastructure Clouds Mobility E-Readers Social Networks Gaming Human Analytics 4 Gandel CONCERT 2010

The Nature of Clouds Makes computing and storage – Virtual and almost infinitely expandable – Takes true advantage of economies of scale Our computing environment truly become ubiquitous—we can keep it with us constantly Pay as you go for infrastructure 5 Gandel CONCERT 2010

More Mobility More functionality Phone-WiFi, Bluetooth Notebook to Netbooks E-Readers, Kindle, i-Pad Smart Pens Mobile Devices have weaved themselves into the very fabric of the very essence of our everyday life. 6 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Social Networks Facebook Growth—over 400 million users LinkedIn 30 million users 7 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Sharing thoughts and images! Flicker --- over 3 billion photos! YouTube—ubiquitous 8 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Collective Information Gathering, Organizing, Mashing Wikipedia Folksonomies Blogs Mashups 9 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Real Organizations are Going Virtual JIVE 10 Gandel CONCERT 2010

The Changing Nature of Information Gathering “In Schmidt's vision, Google will search before you even ask” Computer World, Sept, Gandel CONCERT 2010

Changing the Face of the Search Google Googles 12 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Human Analytics Search Inversion (source Stephen Saunders—Info-week, June 21, 2010) Internet is no longer just a useful tool for users to search for information Internet becomes a tool for companies to search for user profiles Instead of people searching for information— search information or user profiles for people User profiles become the “information.” 13 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Gaming From Packman to Warcraft The median age of gamers is now past 30! Large diversity of platforms— can be played on many mobile devices. Industry size comparable to the music industry 14 Gandel CONCERT 2010

The Evolving Teaching and Research Paradigms in an E- Everything World 15 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Teaching and Learning Authentic Experiential Evidence-Based Participatory Ill-Defined Problem-Based Diversity of Outcomes Reflective 16 Portfolio-Based Gandel CONCERT 2010

Learning Environments Collaborative/Participatory Virtual labs and simulations Playgrounds! 17 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Learn by Harnessing the “crowd” From “clicker” to “mobile device” Using social tools Building multiple connections “Life lines” are constant 18 Gandel CONCERT 2010

E-Curriculum From Push to Pull From the explicit to the tacit—from learning about to learning to be… From formal to more informal learning The end of the self-contained course Source: Hagel III, Brown, & Davidison, The Power of the Pull 19 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Authentic Learning Evidence Based From Facebook to E-Portfolios 20 Gandel CONCERT 2010

The Challenge of “Pull” What? Where? How? 21 Gandel CONCERT 2010

The Challenge for the Instructor How to manage and gather the “Flow.” – Example: 100 people in a class—potentially 100 discussion threads. How to THINK! And Reflect! 22 Gandel CONCERT 2010

E-Science and Scholarship Unlimited opportunities New tools, new ways of seeing the world Collaborative Enable scientist to imagine the unimaginable 23 Gandel CONCERT 2010

But Limited by Possibilities! Powerful cyber-research tools are too complex to be run solely by scientist. In the new world of massive-scale computing, professional information technology, it is difficult and sometimes impossible for researchers to identify the most effective analytical tools, data sets, and other resources to best achieve research skills. 24 Gandel CONCERT 2010

And….. Where to we keep all the stuff? How do we remember? 25 Gandel CONCERT 2010

The “flow” of opportunity for libraries and information professional… 26 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Stop Complaining and… Embrace Change Challenge the norm Manage the flow Add value…. – Time – $$$$$ 27 Gandel CONCERT 2010

What if the “wisdom of crowds” turns out to be the “ignorance of the masses?” A Perfect Opportunity! 28 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Partner in … New forms of learning Scholarship Creating new avenues of scholarly communication Preserving the dialogue 29 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Learning Beyond information literacy to information fluency New modes for accessing and participating in the dialogue of learning Actively collaborate with student and faculty Portfolio Management 30 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Creating Learning Spaces… Study Spaces Classrooms Gaming Studios Quiet Spaces! Make Spaces Compelling! 31 And Don’t Forget Virtual Spaces! Gandel CONCERT 2010

Making E-Scholarship Work In the new world of massive-scale computing, professional information technology facilitators are needed to work with researchers to identify the most effective analytical tools, data sets, and other resources to best achieve research skills. 32 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Pull Everything! Get beyond the print vs. electronic wars! 33 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Research Engagement Explore new models for social networking to promote engagement, mobility and sustainability…..And Authentic Scholarship! 34 Gandel CONCERT 2010

It’s a Flat World Design new systems for exchange of information New policy models for new federations 35 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Organizing Information To remember and preserve.... and to measure…. 36 Gandel CONCERT 2010

New world of publishing… Understanding new emerging economic models for scholarly exchange of ideas Be part of the solution and dialogue 37 Gandel CONCERT 2010

New Ways of Organizing Libraries as Networked Organizations The Embedded Librarian— Have skills will travel physically and virtually! The “team” approach Virtual presence as well as physical presence 38 Gandel CONCERT 2010

New Leadership The Scholarship of Scholarship and Learning! Sense Making! Contingency as the Norm… 39 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Becoming Results Oriented Define outcomes in the context of institutional mission Identify opportunities for real impact Measure results! 40 Gandel CONCERT 2010

Key Skills..for a new world.. Enable collaboration Collect data Manage and store data Use the data for analysis purposes Communicate data Design (information/data systems) Training 41 Gandel CONCERT 2010

New Information Professionals Soft Skills Domain expertise Team player Communicate about the project Interdisciplinary Pioneer Self-motivation Detail orientation Probability and Stats ability Research methods understanding 42 Gandel CONCERT 2010

New Vision – Forge links between people, information, and tools in order to expose, mine, and process the mountains of scientific and research data. – Create information systems to integrate the communication, collaboration and data management facilities to bond researchers – Understand the importance of subject matter expertise – Work with researchers, faculty and students as partners – Facilitate collaboration for distributed groups via collaborative tools. 43 Gandel CONCERT 2010

The challenge Innovate and change… Wisely and continuously 44 Thanks! Gandel CONCERT 2010