Session Location
Grand Valley State University, Eberhard Center
Session Start Date and Time
21-8-2013 1:00 PM
Session End Date and Time
21-8-2013 2:00 PM
Session Abstract
Using the lens of Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation theory the presentation will explore the current state of the university and scholarship and will suggest that the two forces that will drive practice in both teaching and learning and scholarship will be openness and social productivity. The presentation will consider how we might think about MOOCs, Wikipedia, and open textbooks in this light.
PowerPoint Presentation
What's Coming: Disruption, Openness, and Social Production
Grand Valley State University, Eberhard Center
Using the lens of Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation theory the presentation will explore the current state of the university and scholarship and will suggest that the two forces that will drive practice in both teaching and learning and scholarship will be openness and social productivity. The presentation will consider how we might think about MOOCs, Wikipedia, and open textbooks in this light.
Additional Comments
Plenary Speaker Biography:
Mr. Lewis received a BA in History from Carleton College (1973) and an MLS from Columbia University (1975). He has two certificates of advanced study in librarianship, one from the University of Chicago, which he received as part of a Council on Library Resources fellowship (1983), and one from Columbia University (1991).
Mr. Lewis began his library career as a reference librarian and became a library administrator. He worked as a reference librarian at the State University of New York at Farmingdale (1975-76) and Hamilton College (1976-78). He became head of reference and then acting director at Franklin and Marshall College (1978-83). At Columbia University Mr. Lewis was the head of the Lehman Library, the international affairs and social science collection (1983-88). He was the head of the Research and Information Services Department at the University of Connecticut (1988-93). He came to Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in 1993 as the Head of Public Services and has been the Dean of the University Library since 2000.
In 2009 he accepted the additional responsibility of Assistant Vice President Digital Scholarly Communications to advance Indiana University’s programs in digital scholarship and to “recapture the scholarly record”.
Mr. Lewis has written over 40 articles and book chapters on topics ranging from reference services to the management of libraries to scholarly communication. (Many of these works can be found at: http://go.iu.edu/5Z8.)
Mr. Lewis is a masters swimmer and enjoys cooking, scuba diving, and traveling to parts of the world where red wine is made.