Opening up the Academy

Chris Batt

Senior Research Fellow

University College London

A landscape of paradox

NATIONAL SERVICES NATIONAL OFFERS

Janet network

JISC

JISC Collections

R and D outcomes

Large impact

• All activities linked to sectors’ priorities

• Leadership through routes to best practice

• R & D = horizon scanning and thought leadership

“Communities are full of people with hidden depths of knowledge and experience”

“The global community is as anonymous as the user wishes and someone who lacks formal education may communicate on equal terms with the professor”

The Phantom Carnation Grower

“How does someone with such self-discovered, self-taught skills thrive and enrich them?”

HE/FEHE/FE

wider public

“Megaphones of informal learning”

Martin Bean

• Low cost

• New audiences

• Blending formal and informal learning through life

Do we need competition?

“Megaphones of informal learning”

Martin Bean

Images of 1m galaxies from Sloane Sky Survey

Day 1: 70k classifications per hour

Year 1: 50m classifications from 150k people

Hanny van Arkel’s Voorwerp Green peas

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HE/FEHE/FE

wider public

What does this mean for the future of HE (and for us)?

What does this mean for the future of HE (and for us)?