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

2. Introduction

3. 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.

4. What’s Going On?

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

6. The network is the new playing field.

7. 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

8. Today’s added value is tomorrow’s commodity

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

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

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

12. Read-write capabilities lead to two-sided markets

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

14. The network enables many-to-many interactions

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

16. Everything users do leaves a trail

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

18. Flipping the classroom

19. 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

20. Some Observations

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

22. Marketplaces for Online Learning

23. 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 …

24. Conclusion

25. Thank You.

26. 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

27. Ithaka S+R Work in Online Learning
Evidence from Randomized Trials
Barriers to Adoption
Informing Innovation at Public Universities
(in progress)