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The Electronic Virtual University in Your Future
Council of Scientific Society Presidents
Douglas Van HouwelingPresident & CEO -- UCAID
Overview Developments in Information
Technology Applications Implications for Research &
Education Implications for the University How Fast Will Change Come?
Developments in Information Technology
Computation•VLSI progress will continue•Everything will have a computer
in it•Challenge:
Even the smallest systems will be extremely complex
Developments in Information Technology
Storage•Density will continue to increase•Challenge:
Bigger but not faster Archival systems
Developments in Information Technology
Communication•Faster improvements in
price/performance than computation and storage
•Challenges: Uneven access Speed of light latency Mobility
Developments in Information Technology
Software•Increasingly interoperable•Better human factors•Challenge
Reliability Expense
Developments in Information Technology
Systems•Distributed•Built of heterogeneous
components Challenge
•Complexity•Reliability
Applications:Many Disciplines and Contexts
Sciences Arts Humanities Health care Business/Law Administration …
Instruction Collaboration Streaming video Distributed
computation Data mining Virtual reality Digital libraries …
Application Attributes
Interactive research collaboration and instruction
Real-time access to remote scientific instruments
Images courtesy of theUniversity of Michigan
Attributes, cont.
Large-scale, multi-site computation and database processing
Shared virtual reality
Any combination of the above
Images courtesy of Old Dominion Universityand University of Illinois-Chicago
Implications for Research & Education
Scholarly Collaboration• Same time <--> Different time• Same place<-->Different place• In a shared information space• Ubiquitously and routinely accessible
Implications for Research & Education
Tomorrow’s Student/Learner• Increasingly adult• More diverse• Part time• Less degree oriented, more focused
on adding competence• More to contribute
Rapid increase in demand
Implications for Research & Education
Distributed Learning Environments• Respond to learner demand• Global opportunity• Highly individualized• Require support for distributed communities• Even campus-based learning environments
will need to include global resources• Will each learner assemble his/her own
virtual university?
Implications for the University
Integration of Research and Education• The same tools and infrastructure will
support distributed research/creation/discovery
• Adult learners could be more engaged• Will students pay to participate in
research?
Implications for the University Other Providers
• Primarily captive corporate or for-profit “institutions”
• Focused on student needs, not institutional priorities
• Global from the beginning• Emphasis on intellectual capital, not facilities• Will higher education institutions be split:
campus-based for young undergraduates geographically distributed for advanced
degrees and adults
Implications for the University
The Changing Role of Faculty• Exploding opportunities for diverse
affiliations• Colleagues and students will be
increasingly less local• Will universities support faculty with
multiple institutional affiliations?• Will the best faculty members each
create their own virtual university?
How Fast Will Change Come? The technology will support the
distributed university by 2005 Other providers are rapidly expanding
market share Institutional change is most rapid in the
non-research sector of higher education The faculty will drive change, and seek
out institutional settings which give them the greatest opportunity
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