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The Future of Everything
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A day-long symposium on connecting space, information/technology, and policy/practice
In the face of an economic crisis of unprecedented and in many ways still not fully understood dimensions, there is a natural inclination to retrench, to stop considering what the next new thing might be, to slow down on innovation and experimentation. This is a mistake. This is the moment when we must confront the core assumptions of our educational enterprises, and to ask hard questions about why we do what we do, and how we can change in order to survive and perhaps even thrive.
This symposium, which is part of the Future of Everything project hosted by Academic Commons (http://academiccommons.org/futureofeverything/), brings us together to consider the possible futures of a host of interconnected topics: the book, the library, our system of scholarly communication, classroom technology, software distribution, the lecture, the seminar, and ultimately, the college and the university. You'll have a chance to hear from leading practitioners who are creating the next generation tools, resources, spaces, and policies, and to engage in on-line dialogue before, during, and after the event. The work of the symposium will be used to inform the publication of an on-line reader that we hope will be broadly useful for all engaged in re-imagining future services, facilities, and policies on campus.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Michael Roy of Middebury College
Date/Time:
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
9:00am - 3:30pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
Four Points Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center
1125 Boston Providence Turnpike
Norwood, MA
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Your fee includes unlimited am and pm break service and lunch.
Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $128
Non-Members: $253
By clicking on the "Register" button below, you are indicating a commitment to attend and will be held responsible for the registration fee.
Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 8 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
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Event Schedule:
8:00am - 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:00am - 9:05am Introduction
9:05am - 10:00am Panel One
The Future of Video
Speaker Jason Mittell, Associate Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture
Chair of Film & Media Culture Department, Middlebury College
Video has long functioned as a medium tightly controlled by a restricted distribution system of television, limited access to the tools of production, and narrowly defined by a commercial imperative. In the past 10 years, online video, desktop video editing, pervasive video cameras, and new interfaces of engagement have exploded these restrictions and transformed the possibilities of using video as a medium within education. In this session, we will consider the potential futures still on the horizon beyond YouTube and Hulu, including facets like the searchability of video, moving images as a medium of scholarly expression, remix pedagogy, and the pitfalls of video archives and libraries.
The Future of Learning Management Systems
Speaker: Alex Chapin, Curricular Technologist, Middlebury College
The monolithic course or learning management system has no future. Already it is being replaced by blogs, wikis, widgets and other lightweight applications for publishing. The challenge in the years to come will be managing courses that involve a diverse set of users, tools and services. To this end, institutions of higher education will need "service frameworks" that provide common core services such as authentication, authorization, repository and group management. Expect future innovation to be in defining and standardizing these and other services and expect most applications to become little more than user interfaces to common repositories, oriented towards providing and consuming this growing set of services.
10:00am - 11:00am Panel Two
The Future of Research and the End(s) of Libraries
Speaker: Chuck Henry Ph.D., President, Council on Library and Information Resources
There are growing indications of significant changes in the nature of research in higher education: it is becoming more interdisciplinary, porous, less structured by traditional iterations-- original idea, methodological inquiry, publication--and far more diffuse. At the same time, frustration at the high costs of scholarly communication is more and more apparent, with several universities and libraries considering more radical collaborations and undertaking projects that would essentially take back control of the dissemination of research. This presentation explores the convergence and implications of these circumstances.
The Future of Preservation
Speaker: Roger Schonfeld, Manager of Research, Ithaka
The library community is in urgent need of strategic planning and coordinated efforts regarding preservation. The transition to electronic formats is upending pre-existing preservation systems, both for digital materials as well as for print collections. How will economically and socially sustainable models be developed? This presentation will review some underlying principles as well as practical examples that are likely to inform preservation frameworks going forward.
11:00am - 11:20am Break
11:20am - 12:05pm Panel Three
The Future of Attention and What to Do About It
Speakers:
David Bogen, Associate Provost, Academic Affairs, Rhode Island School of Design
Eric Gordon, Assistant Professor Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College
The nature of the academic lecture has changed with the introduction of wi-fi and cellular technologies. Interacting with personal screens during a lecture or other live event has become commonplace and, as a result, the economy of attention that defines these situations has changed. Is it possible to pay attention when sending a text message or surfing the web? For that matter, does distraction always detract from the learning that takes place in these environments? In this talk, we ask questions concerning the texture and shape of this emerging economy of attention. We do not take a position on the efficiency of new technologies for delivering educational content or their efficacy of competing for users’ time and attention. Instead, we argue that the emerging social media provide new challenges and new opportunities for choreographing attention in line with the performative conventions of any given situation. Rather than banning laptops and cell phones from the lecture hall and the classroom, we aim to ask what precisely they have to offer for these settings understood as performative sites of learning.
12:05pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:40pm Panel Four
The Future of Scholarly Publishing
Speakers:
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Associate Professor of English and Media Studies, Pomona College
Monica McCormick, Program Officer for Digital Scholarly Publishing NYU Press/Director-Admin, New York University Libraries
Just about everyone concedes that traditional scholarly publishing is in trouble: rising journal subscription costs, reduced library budgets, diminishing university press sales figures, and many other such factors point to a rapidly failing economic model. But at the same time, indicators of a bright potential future for networked scholarly communication abound, including the proliferation of scholarly blogs, the rise of open access journals, the spread of print on demand, and the development of new institutional collaborations. What challenges do these new modes pose for our thinking about scholarly publishing? What problems might we face in the transition from current publishing systems to the systems of the future? In this session, we'll ponder the changes in our understandings of authorship and authority being produced by new publishing technologies, as well as the potential futures that digital scholarly publishing present.
A Book is a Place . . . The Evolution of Reading and Writing in the Networked Era
Speaker: Bob Stein, Director, Institute for the Future of the Book
For the past several hundred years intellectual discourse has been shaped by the rhythms and hierarchies inherent in the nature of print. As discourse shifts from page to screen, and more significantly to a networked environment, the old definitions and relations are undergoing substantial changes. The shift in our world view from individual to network holds the promise of a radical reconfiguraton in culture. Notions of authority are being challenged. The roles of author and reader are morphing and blurring. Publishing, methods of distribution, peer review and copyright - every crucial aspect of the way we move ideas around - is up for grabs. The new digital technologies afford vastly different outcomes ranging from oppressive to liberating. How we make this shift has critical long term implications for human society.
2:40pm - 3:00pm Break
3:00pm - 3:30pm Wrap Up: The Future of the Future
Speaker:
Alex Chapin
Alex Chapin is a curricular technologist at Middlebury College and one of the principal designers of the Segue curricular content management system that won a Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration in 2007. He is also the developer of the iSpeak series, a growing media collection of remixable words, verbs and phrases for learning languages on mobile devices published by McGraw-Hill.
Speaker:
David Bogen
David Bogen is the Associate Provost of Academic Affairs at the Rhode Island School of Design. His main scholarly and design interests focus on the relationships between ordinary social activities (conversing, remembering, teaching/learning, etc.) and the array of technologies, organizational arrangements, and human capacities that make them possible. He is the author of Order Without Rules: Critical Theory and the Logic of Conversation (SUNY Press, 1999) and, with Michael Lynch, The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings (Duke U. Press, 1996).
Speaker:
Eric Gordon
Eric Gordon’s work focuses on place-based digital communities, media and urbanism, and augmented education. Most recently, he edited a special issue of Space and Culture on the topic of “The Geography of Virtual Worlds,” exploring the ideas of how location matters even in the most virtual of conditions. His book The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities from Kodak to Google is forthcoming from Dartmouth College Press (2009). And he is the co-director of the Hub2 (http://hub2.org) project, which experiments with virtual and game environments to engage people in community decision making and planning in urban neighborhoods. He is an assistant professor of new media at Emerson College.
Speaker:
Jason Mittell
Jason Mittell is Associate Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture, and Chair of Film & Media Culture, at Middlebury College. He is the author of Genre & Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture (Routledge, 2004), Television & American Culture (Oxford UP, 2009), numerous essays in journals and anthologies, and the blog Just TV. He is currently writing a digital book on narrative complexity in contemporary American television.
Speaker:
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor of English and Media Studies at Pomona College, and co-coordinating editor of MediaCommons, an all electronic scholarly publishing network in media studies. She is the author of _The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television_ (Vanderbilt UP, 2006), and is currently working on her second book, _Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy_, to be published jointly by NYU Press and MediaCommons. She has blogged for nearly seven years at http://www.plannedobsolescence.net.
Speaker:
Monica McCormick
Monica McCormick is Program Officer for Digital Scholarly Publishing at New York University. She works with NYU Libraries to develop digital publishing services for the university and with NYU Press to develop strategies for the transition to a hybrid business model of both print and e-content. She also supports collaborative ventures between the Libraries and Press. Previously Monica was Principal Editor for history and ethnic studies at the University of California Press. She received her MSLS from the University of North Carolina.
Speaker:
Robert Stein
Robert Stein is a Visiting Scholar at New York University and the Director of The Institute for the Future of the Book. The institute has two principal activities; one is building high-end tools for making multi-modal networked documents and the other is exploring and hopefully influencing the evolution of new forms of discourse as it moves from printed pages to networked screens. Previously Stein was the founder of The Voyager Company where over a 13-year period he led the development of over 300 titles in The Criterion Collection, a series of definitive films, and more than 75 CD ROM titles including the CD Companion to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Who Built America?, Marvin Minsky’s The Society of Mind, and American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century.
Speaker:
Roger Schonfeld
Roger Schonfeld leads the research group at Ithaka, where he analyzes the impacts that new technologies are having on higher education to help the community respond strategically. His recent work has focused on the transition to an electronic-only environment for scholarly resources, faculty attitudes and research patterns in this emerging environment, and the history and future of preservation and book survivability. Roger currently serves on the NSF Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.
Previously, Roger was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. There, he collaborated on The Game of Life: College Sports and Academic Values with James Shulman and William G. Bowen (Princeton University Press, 2000). He also wrote JSTOR: A History (Princeton University Press, 2003), which examines business models for the shift to an online environment for scholarly texts by focusing on how JSTOR developed into a self-sustaining not-for-profit organization.
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Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Sheraton Norwood, the conference location.
To make reservations contact the Sheraton Norwood at 781-769-7900 and request the "NERCOMP Room Block".
The room block for May 18, will be released on April 20, 2009. Standard queen rooms are available for $150 per night.
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