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MooC e-Science Standards

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MOOCs and Data driven ResearchCan Indian Academic Libraries adapt?

िशवकुमार G. Sivakumar சிவகுமார்

Computer Science and Engineeringभारतीय ौोिगकी संान म ुबंई (IIT Bombay)

[email protected]

May 27, 2013

• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)• e-Science• Standards for Libraries in Higher Education

िशवकुमार G. Sivakumarசிவகுமார்Computer Science and Engineering भारतीय ौोिगकी संान म ुबंई (IIT Bombay) [email protected] and Data driven Research Can Indian Academic Libraries adapt?


.. Librarians: An Endangered Species?

The Machines are coming! The Machines are coming!

First they came for the communists chess playersand I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.Then they came for the trade unionists mathematiciansand I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews IIT Profsand I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew IIT Prof.Then they came for me librariansand there was no one left to speak out for me.

Caveat: Have I walked a mile in your shoes? Should I (Tipfrom my HoD)?



.. Tomorrow’s Information, Yesterday’s Librarian

How are libraries affected?िशवकुमार G. Sivakumarசிவகுமார்Computer Science and Engineering भारतीय ौोिगकी संान म ुबंई (IIT Bombay) [email protected] and Data driven Research Can Indian Academic Libraries adapt?


.. Internet (Web 1.0)

Milestones

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3

4 5 6

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http://www.isc.org/

9796959493888270s

10 80k 1M 4.5M 16M1k

100M30M2k

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25

90 150

20k 50k 800k

500 200k 1.2M

Academic WWW(steroids)

Java

LAN−boom!

(TCP/IP)

(DoD funds)

Hosts

INTERNET GROWTH

99

Users

Countries

Domains

WWW sites

Commercial UsersE−commerce

147M

All

Motto: Information AnyTime, AnyWhere, AnyForm,AnyDevice, ...

WebTone like DialToneBasic Hardware (sine qua non!)Democratized access to information!



.. Social Networking (Web 2.0)The OS/system software that empowers users to becomeproducers of knowledge and ensures their right tocollaboration/assembly.Examples: Wikipedia, Flickr, Orkut, Twitter, ....Mantras: Architecture of participation, Wisdom of crowds,Better as more use - Long tail, Tagging, commenting, blogs,Open access (source/content) for Remix/Mashup



.. पवू प (Purva Paksha)

Web 1.0 may have democratized access to information, but itis like

• Drinking water from a fire hose!• Finding a needle in a haystack.

Search engines provide partial solutions, but cannot combine,categorize and infer!Web 2.0 may have allowed right to assembly/collaboartion,but

• Proliferated unreliable, contradictory information.• Facilitated malicious uses including loss of privacy,

security.



.. Educating the Masses

2012 proclaimed year of the Moocिशवकुमार G. Sivakumarசிவகுமார்Computer Science and Engineering भारतीय ौोिगकी संान म ुबंई (IIT Bombay) [email protected] and Data driven Research Can Indian Academic Libraries adapt?


.. Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)



.. Not just Engineering



.. Moodle



.. Tablet to cure all ills?

Part of the country’s aim to link 25,000 colleges and 400universities in an e-learning program.िशवकुमार G. Sivakumarசிவகுமார்Computer Science and Engineering भारतीय ौोिगकी संान म ुबंई (IIT Bombay) [email protected]

MOOCs and Data driven Research Can Indian Academic Libraries adapt?


.. Small Science (Last 4 centuries)

How much data? computation? collaboration?िशवकुमार G. Sivakumarசிவகுமார்Computer Science and Engineering भारतीय ौोिगकी संान म ुबंई (IIT Bombay) [email protected] and Data driven Research Can Indian Academic Libraries adapt?


.. Science ParadigmsEvolution from

• Empiricalobserve and interpret natural phenomena

• Theoreticalgeneralize and postulate underlying principles

• Computationalmodel and simulate complex interactions

• Data Exploration• Large Hadron Collider• Climate Change• DNA sequencing• Drug discovery

Communities need to share data, software, knowledge, in realtime!



.. Standards for LibrariesAssociation for College and Research Libraries report..

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Concerns in higher education include increasing demands foraccountability outcomes-based assessment increase graduationrates; greater emphasis on student success;.

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Advancing and sustaining libraries’ role as partners ineducating students, achieving their institutions missions,leaders in assessment and continuous improvement on theircampuses..

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Libraries must demonstrate their value and document theircontributions to overall institutional effectiveness and beprepared to address changes in higher education.



.. What Libraries should do

From ACRL report.• Identify and select appropriate performance indicators• Develop user-centered, measurable outcomes• Conduct assessments that may be quantitative and/or

qualitative;• Collect evidence from assessments that demonstrate

degree of success• Use assessment data for continuous improvement of

library operations.Let’s apply these principles (mutatis mutandis) to IIT Bombay.



.. KPIs for Institutional Effectiveness

• The library defines and measures outcomes aligned withinstitutional, departmental, and student affairs outcomes.(footfalls?)

• The library develops and maintains a body of evidencethat demonstrates its impact in convincing ways.

• The library articulates how it contributes to studentlearning, collects evidence, documents successes, sharesresults, and makes improvements. (citeseer)



.. More Performance Indicators

• The library supports academic integrity and detersplagiarism through policy and education.

• Library personnel collaborate with faculty and othersregarding ways to incorporate library collections andservices into effective education experiences for students.

• Library personnel model best pedagogical practices forclassroom teaching, online tutorial design,

• The library has the infrastructure to collect, organize,provide access to, disseminate, and preserve collectionsneeded by users.

• The library contributes to external relations throughcommunications, publi- cations, events, and donorcultivation and stewardship. (alumni, iitbombay.org)



.. Final Prescription

The library communicates with the campus community tohighlight its value in the educational mission and ininstitutional effectiveness. (IRCCawards)घटं िभंाटं िछंाुया ारभरोहणम।्यने केन कारणे िसो पुषो भवते॥्

Break the pots. Tear the clothes. Ride a donkey. Bywhatever means possible, a man should becomefamous.


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