Institutional Web Management Workshop 2012:
Embedding Innovation

Workshop session A1: Identifying and Responding to Emerging Technologies

Please note that this page contains information about the session abstract; slides and video recordings of the talks, video recordings of the talks on the group exercises and additional resources.

Title:

A1: Identifying and Responding to Emerging Technologies

Session Tag:

#A1

Time:

Monday 18^th June 2012 from 11:00-12:30

Speaker:

Brian Kelly, UKOLN, Thom Bunting, UKOLN and Mark Power, CETIS.

Abstract:

Understanding whether new or emerging ideas will be thwarted or become embedded when subjected to the "acid test" of the real world that is the educational system - and also the perpetual change of technology use - relies on an understanding of the patterns of cause and effect in that system.

This session, which will be facilitated by members of the JISC Observatory team at UKOLN and CETIS, will use a mixture of group exercises and discussions to understand potential enablers and disenablers of emerging new technologies. Having developed a better appreciation of how new technologies may or may not be adopted can help to develop appropriate strategies for preparing institutions - and members of the institution - for exploiting innovative developments in an appropriate and effective manner.

The session will explore how such approaches can be used for developing strategies for innovations which have become mainstream in recent years - such as mobile access and the social web - as well as provide an opportunity for participants to identify other developments which may be as yet under the radar'.

By the end of this session you should:

• Be aware of approaches which can help in identifying emerging technology developments through detection of 'weak signals'.
• Have explored ways in which 'weak signals' which may be significant can be differentiated from unsustainable 'fads'.
• Have used these approaches to identify key areas of which may affect the provision of institutional web services or other areas of relevance to participants.
• Have seen ways in which these approaches have been used in other areas of JISC Observatory work.

Note that 20+ people had registered on 12 June 2012.

Materials

Slides and Video Recordings of Talks

The slides used by the workshop facilitators are available and Slideshare and are also embedded below. In addition three video recordings of the session are available and also embedded below.

Note that since this was a workshop session, with group exercises, the video recordings do not necessarily directly relate to the slides.

Introduction by Brian Kelly View more presentations from Brian Kelly.	IWMW 2012 session A1: Introduction by Brian Kelly from UKOLN on Vimeo.
Delivering Web to Mobile by Mark Power View more presentations from Mark Power	IWMW 2012 session A1: Presentation on 'Delivering Web to Mobile' by Mark Power from UKOLN on Vimeo.
JISC Observatory: Horizon Scanning for Higher and Further Education by Brian Kelly View more slides from Thom Bunting	No video recording available
No slides available	IWMW 2012 session A1: Wrap-up by Brian Kelly from UKOLN on Vimeo.

Video Recordings of Reports on Group Exercise

Note that video recordings of the reports from the group exercise on use of open data; use of social media; use of collaborative tools; and use of metadata are available and embedded below.

IWMW 2012 session A1: Group one discussion report-back summary from the JISC Observatory Group on Vimeo.	Abstract This video summary lasting 1 minute 49 second reports on a group exercise which provided recommended approaches for institutional use of open data. Exercise Give a presentation to your Pro Vice-Chancellor on how the University should respond to the opportunities and challenges of 'open data'. The following context was provided: Is open data really "the new content" which will be of importance to the Web team as well as the University? Or might it be the latest fashionable term? And in a time of cuts, increased fees and competition for students and research funding, won't institutions be less inclined to provide open access to data, their crown jewels?
IWMW 2012 session A1: Group two discussion report-back summary from the JISC Observatory Group on Vimeo.	Abstract This video summary lasting 1 minute 30 seconds reports on a group exercise which provided recommended approaches for institutional use of social media. Exercise Give a presentation to your Pro Vice-Chancellor on how the University should respond to the opportunities and challenges of 'social media'. The following context was provided: Does Social media have a significant role to play across a range of University activities, or is it hype or primarily for personal use?
IWMW 2012 session A1: Group three discussion report-back summary from the JISC Observatory Group on Vimeo.	Abstract This video summary lasting 1 minute 42 seconds reports on a group exercise which provided recommended approaches for institutional use of collaboration tools. Exercise Give a presentation to your Pro Vice-Chancellor on how the University should respond to the opportunities and challenges of 'collaboration tools'. The following context was provided: Will online conferencing and collaboration tools have an impact on traditional approaches, ranging from conferences, events for practitioners (e.g. IWMW) through to student lectures? How might, e.g. this affect plans for building a new conference centre and lecture theatre block.
IWMW 2012 session A1: Group four discussion report-back summary from the JISC Observatory Group on Vimeo.	Abstract This video summary lasting 1 minute 33 seconds reports on a group exercise which provided recommended approaches on use of metadata. Exercise Give a presentation to your Pro Vice-Chancellor on how the University should respond to the opportunities and challenges of 'metatadata'. The following context was provided: Will developments such as schema.org provided better searching for structured resources? Should we be implementing it? But didn't we hear promises that Dublin Core metadata in Web pages or use of RDF would deliver this in the past?

Additional Resources

Note that additional information about this workshop session is available on the IWMW 2012 Lanyrd page.