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Back to the future – Future Proof IT 2017Martin Hamilton
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Towards the intelligent campus
1. Near future careers
2. Rise of the robots
3. Implications & next steps
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About Jisc
» edtech not-for-profit with ~18m users:
› Running shared services like Janet, eduroam and JiscMail
› Negotiating deals with IT vendors and publishers
› Providing advice & guidance
» Major initiatives right now in digital skills, research data and learning analytics
» My role:
› Leading a small group looking at emerging technologies like Augmented Reality and brain computer interfaces
› Generating & channelling new ideas
› Building partnerships to bring them to fruition
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Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user feuilllu
1. Near future careers:From DNA editor to asteroid miner
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Near future careers
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Now hiring… DNA editors
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Now hiring… DNA editors, drone engineers
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Now hiring… DNA editors, drone engineers, asteroid miners
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SpaceX first stage booster landing, THAICOM8 mission, May 2016 - via SpaceX
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Near future careers
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Near future careers
Coming soon… UK spaceports
2. Rise of the robots
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Rise of the robots
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Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user nestle
› Pepper acts as greeter in 140+ SoftBank stores in Japan
› Nestlé planning to introduce in 1000+ sales outlets
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Pepper the robot visits the Financial Times
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Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user greenplasticamy
› Amazon uses over 45,000 robots already in itswarehouses and distribution centres
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Photo CC BY-NC Flickr user greenplasticamy
› Amazon uses over 45,000 robots already in itswarehouses and distribution centres
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From http://futurism.com
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Startups and scaleups
› Jisc Startups competition– Six month accelerator programme
– Support package includes cash grant and mentoring
› Winners: Omni Invent (now EngX)– 4 nozzle 3D printer + CNC mill,
automatically embed circuits/sensors, automated tool changer
– Selected for Hax hardware accelerator programme, in top 3% of entrants
– Team moved to Shenzen to finish commercialising
– http://engx.io
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Photo CC BY-ND Flickr user chijs
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› Tesla owners have already driven over 140m miles on Autopilot
› 90,000+ Teslas with Autopilot are already on the road
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Photo CC BY-ND Flickr user chijs
Photo CC BY-NC-SA Flickr user portalgda
› Tesla owners have already driven over 140m miles on Autopilot
› 90,000+ Teslas with Autopilot are already on the road
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Google DeepMind AI learns to play Breakout
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Obstacle detection and avoidance in the Google self-driving car
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Startups and scaleups
› Jisc Startups competition– Six month accelerator programme
– Support package includes cash grant and mentoring
› Winners: Wildfire Learning– World’s first AI content creation
service for learning
– Create learning objects from any text, PowerPoint or video
– Generate a course’s worth of content in an hour
– www.wildfirelearning.co.uk
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3. Implications & next steps
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Implications & next steps
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Societal implications:
› You might be surprised at just how much more can be automated
› Further erosion of unskilled and semi-skilled employment opportunities– Watch out if your white collar job can be reduced to an
algorithm or “learned” from data
› “New Luddites” throwing stones at the Google bus?– Versus universal basic income?
– Versus psychological need for a greater purpose?
› Health implications of sedentary lifestyles, musculoskeletal disorders– Already 86% of Chinese high school students are
myopic – screen time & indoor play?
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Developing digital capability:
› There will be whole new careers & existing ones will change beyond recognition– We should view this as an opportunity, e.g. smart homes need smart
plumbers & smart electricians
› We will need to embrace portfolio careers & continuous/bite sized learning– No longer enough to learn a trade or achieve professional
certification
› Impedance mismatch between digital tech and the apparatus of the nation state– Brexit vs. Estonian e-residency
› Reaching the next billion learners– Last mile issues for trans-national education
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CC BY-ND Flickr user chijs
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VLE data+
Student record system+
Attendance data+
Library data
Buildings data+
Learning space data +
Location data
Teaching quality data+
Assessment data+
Curriculum design data
Content data+
Learning pathways data
Better retention and attainment
Retention and attainment
Retention and attainment
Retention and attainment
A more efficient campus
Improved teaching & curricula
Personalised and adaptive learning
Efficient campus Efficient campus
Improving teaching & curricula
Now
Learning analytics
Institutional analytics
Educational analytics
AdaptiveAnalytics and AI
Future
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Tri-modal model for innovationCC-BY Simon Wardley – seeblog.gardeviance.org/2012/06/pioneers-settlers-and-town-planners.html
Tackling the Innovator’s Dilemma:
› What’s the right mix of Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners?
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Continue the conversation…
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Martin HamiltonFuturist, Jisc
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