1. Dr. Brad Wheeler Vice 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/)http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

3. The Curves

4. Technical Possibility

5. Social Desirability

6. Economic Feasibility

7. Campus Technology October 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.”

8. Edvard Munch, “The Scream”, 1893 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_Scream.jpg

9. Question: Can our actions substantively affect the shape of the curves or do we just adapt as they are revealed?

10. Curve Bending Examples

11. Open Educational Resources/Scholarship Curve Bender Example #1

12. “…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. Vest President Emeritus, MIT

13. Gateway to IU’s open content…. open.iu.edu

14. In Search of Certitude Curve Bender Example #2 Projecting our Expertise to our Community via a Commercial Alliance

15. Self-guided Search 8:00 AM 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?

16. Self-guided Search 8:00 AM Found Wikipedia 8:05 AM

17. Self-guided Search 8:00 AM Found Wikipedia 8:05 AM Ask-A- Librarian 8:36 AM “Still Working” 11:33 AM Suggestion Provided 10:46 AM

18. Self-guided Search 8:00 AM Found Wikipedia 8:05 AM Perfect Answer! 12:20 PM “Still Working” 11:33 AM Suggestion Provided 10:46 AM Ask-A- Librarian 8:36 AM

19. Self-guided Search 8:00 AM Found Wikipedia 8:05 AM Perfect Answer! 12:20 PM “Still Working” 11:33 AM Suggestion Provided 10:46 AM Ask-A- Librarian 8:36 AM “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”

20. Hmm…. I wonder if a ChaCha guide could have found that James Bryant Conant quote? (www.chacha.com)

21. First Answer (not it) 11:26 Request a Guide 11:25 AM Search ChaCha 11:25 AM Good Enough Answer! 11:27 AM

22. Search at IU

23. … More Search at IU

24. … And More Search at IU

25. and…Research Disciplines Search at IU

26. Guided Search….Projects

27. Guided Search: a Platform for 21 st Century

28. search.iu.edu

31. Search Pyramid

32. “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

33. Community Source Curve Bender Example #3 Developing and Sustaining Software Together to Control our Destiny

34. The Cathedral The Bazaar Classic Models of Software Production

35. A hole…. Need for a Hybrid Model …Community Source “The Pub…the Place Between the Cathedral and the Bazaar”

36. IU Community Source Engagements

38. Licensing Terms Curve Bender Example #4 A work in progress

41. 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

43. Dr. Brad Wheeler Vice President for IT & CIO, Dean, & Professor Indiana University bwheeler@iu.edu ovpit.iu.edu Leading Ahead of the Curves