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Thoughts on Instructional Technology. Christopher L. Barrett Director, NDSSL Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Virginia Tech. Information Access & Control. Networked mass storage is the driver Surveys, administrative information and advanced social media Crowd sourcing Mass collaboration
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Thoughts on Instructional Technology Christopher L. Barrett Director, NDSSL Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Virginia Tech
Information Access & Control • Networked mass storage is the driver • Surveys, administrative information and advanced social media • Crowd sourcing • Mass collaboration • Open source data and software • HIPAA, terrorism, state sponsored attacks, wikileaks, facebook security flaps, etc. • Niche information and conceptual balkanization
Local truth vs mass collaboration Mass collaboration and governance of consensus Impact on journals Impact on certification and standards Impact on preparation quality
Interactionist methods • HPC nets • Massive data nets • Contextual human interaction via capable mobile devices • “simulation” • Decision and reasoning informatics • Augmented human reasoning impacts education
Nothing replaces the need for the very best people Nothing, ideas trump everything