The Next Disruption: Session Recap

In March 2013, Bonnie Cain-Wood attended a session on disruptive technology. Her notes, take aways and follow up questions are below.

Session Brief: James McQuivey, Ph.D., author of the new book “Digital Disruption,” promotes that accelerated disruption is made possible by ubiquitous digital platforms and tools. He has observed the rise of a mindset among digital disruptors that is part hacker ethic, part rugged individualist, and part naive do-gooder.

These traits are converging in maximally disruptive individuals who McQuivey collectively calls The Next Disruption. Where digital disruption research has historically focused on rewriting the rules of business, The Next Disruption will go further, consciously applying the same interest in experimentation, data science, and risk to change the way we learn, govern, and live. This is not about the next big thing. It's about the next small things, billions of them, moving toward a bigger future than any powerful players can do alone.

Sir Ken Robinson: Killing Creativity

What do we do that stifles creativity? What could we do better to foster creativity?

Rise of the Autodidadic Degree: Session Recap

In March 2013, Bonnie Cain-Wood attended a session on disillusion with college educations. Her notes, take aways and follow up questions are below.

Session Brief:  People are realizing the financial burden of student loans and the struggle to find a job after graduation. Meanwhile, their role models are both some of the most successful people in business AND college dropouts — Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, to name a few. We’re entering a new reality, where education and opportunity are what you create. This means thousands upon thousands of people are asking the same question, “Is a college degree really worth the money or can I get the same information and training for free online and through other mechanisms?” It’s a defining time for universities, students, graduates and businesses. This session explored what this shift means and how both businesses and education systems should react.

Take Aways:

·         Era of Innovation introduce new forms of education. 

·         Today we see an increase in self-education. Why:

1. We question the value of a college degree. 

2. Connectivity and Information (ex: MOOC)

3. Human nature-we want to learn, we are curious

Library Applications:

·         As an academic institution are we afraid of the rise of the "autodidadic degree"? Should we be?

·         What do we do to give our students the information literacy skills to be robust self-learners?

·         In our hiring, promotion, training, etc. what can we do to identify, recognize and give credit for self-education?

If you would like to share your notes on conference sessions relevant to the Library Future Series contact lib-pub@okstate.edu.