Opportunity and Challenge: Sustainable Knowledge Dissemination in the Digital Age Kevin M. Guthrie University of Pittsburgh October 1, 2013

Introduction

About ITHAKA Ithaka S+R is a research and consulting service that focuses on the transformation of scholarship and teaching in an online environment, with the goal of identifying the critical issues facing our community and acting as a catalyst for change. Portico is a digital preservation service for e-journals, e-books, and other scholarly e-content. JSTOR is a research platform that enables discovery, access, and preservation of scholarly content.

What’s Going On?

Big Changes Content became digital Content became accessible via a globally connected network

The network is the new playing field.

Today’s added value is tomorrow’s commodity Services that can go to the cloud will go to the cloud Read-write capabilities lead to two-sided markets The network enables many-to-many interactions Everything users do leaves a trail

Today’s added value is tomorrow’s commodity

Examples: Added value to commodity Commercial web: Blockbuster, Netflix Scholarly community: PLOSOne/PeerJ, 2U/Georgia Tech Partnership

Services that can go to the cloud will go to the cloud

Examples: Cloud Commercial web: Amazon Web Services, Salesforce.com (saas), Spotify Scholarly community: JSTOR for journal backfiles, gmail

Read-write capabilities lead to two-sided markets

Examples: Two-sided markets Commercial web: eBay, wikipedia Scholarly community: Author pages in Google Scholar MOOCs?

The network enables many-to-many interactions

Examples: Many-to-many Consumer world: Twitter, Facebook Scholarly community: MediaCommons, Mendeley

Everything users do leaves a trail

Examples: Data leaves a trail Consumer world: Google, Amazon Scholarly community: Altmetrics

Flipping the classroom

Today’s added value is tomorrow’s commodity Services that can go to the cloud will go to the cloud Read-write capabilities lead to two-sided markets The network enables many-to-many interactions Everything users do leaves a trail

Some Observations

Some Observations Video is the new paper MOOCs impact Unbundling Governance Teaching, exposed What will become of the data?

Marketplaces for Online Learning

Confusion Individuals unaffiliated with any institution Students using MOOC to get credit or placement An institution using OL/MOOC to teach registered students A corporation using a MOOC to train staff …

Conclusion

Thank You. kevin.guthrie@ithaka.org

Ithaka S+R Work in Online Learning Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from Randomized Trials (May 2012) Barriers to Adoption of Online Learning Systems in U.S. Higher Education (June 2012) Higher Education in a Digital Age William G. Bowen (April 2013) Informing Innovation in Higher Education: Evidence from Implementing the Latest Online Learning Technologies in a Public University System (in process with the University System of Maryland) Governance, Cost and Data

Ithaka S+R Work in Online Learning Evidence from Randomized Trials http://sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/interactive-learning-online-public-universities-evidence-randomized-trials Barriers to Adoption http://sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/barriers-adoption-online-learning-systems-us-higher-education Informing Innovation at Public Universities http://sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/informing-innovation-higher-education-evidence-implementing-latest-online (in progress)