Hot Topics discussion: new and emerging technology



Hot Topics discussion: new and emerging technology

Educause 2007

October 24, 2007

Malcolm Brown, discussion facilitator

Malcolm.brown@dartmouth.edu

Session notes

More chairs next door (ran out of room)

(A) How do you keep informed and new and emerging technologies?

1. A futures council: a cross-organizational group that scouts for new technologies and passes recommendations on to an applications group

2. MIT publication Technology Review.

3. NMC/ELI Horizons Report.

4. Mining help desk reports: what kinds of functionality are users asking for? [needs assessment as a complement to technology horizon scanning]

5. Hang out in the Computer Science commons

6. Network with folks in industry; they move faster that we do in higher education

7. Watch the kids

8. Listserv now technologies

9. Blog: read/write web

10. Blog: libraryman

11. Blog: quizmodo

12. Blog: engaget

13. Slashdot

14. Blog: David Pogue

15. Blog: Universal Desktop

16. Blog: Techcrunch

17. Blog: cnet crave

18. Blog: elearnspace

19. Blog: mashie? Maskie?

20. Blog twitter

21. Information from abroad; international students, faculty

22. Yahoo pipes — filtering RSS feeds

23. Social presence tools—e.g., jaiku

24. Google

25. Techwatch

26. Browse help wanted advertisements

27.

28. Burton, Gartner

29. Ecar

30. ELI 7 things

Map from real world practices to/into potential higher ed practices

Fill the hole: address a need

Fallout: implications for users

Listen to first year students

Listen to the institution

Web blog mining

Cost

Undoing the legacy: how to you get rid of it

(2) What are the key emerging technologies (2 to 3 years out) for higher ed?

Portal (example of Xavier)

Toolset integration. From the outside, from within the institution

SOA, APIs, etc.

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