Administracion

Columbus Council on World Affairs
14 November 2008

Beyond Facebook: Technology in Education
Jay Jordan
President and CEO OCLC

OCLC: 1967
a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization

academic libraries

54

Frederick Kilgour
founder, 1914-2006

OSU Main Library
1st offices

Furthering access to the world’s information... reducing the rate ofrise of per-unit library costs

The OCLC cooperative: 2008

69,826 libraries in 112 countries

1,355 55,284
Cataloging eBooks Reference Digitization & Preservation Resource Sharing Collection Analysis

5,639 1,080 882 4,253 1,015 320

OCLC: 27 offices in 10 countries

Australia: Footscray, Victoria Perth, Western Australia Canada: Calgary, Alberta Chambly, Quebec Winnipeg, ManitobaChina: Beijing France: Asnières sur Seine Germany: Berlin Bonn Oberhaching

Mexico: Mexico City Netherlands: Leiden Switzerland: Basel United Kingdom: Birmingham Sheffield St. Andrews

United States: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Blackwood, New Jersey Bloomfield, New Jersey Boulder, Colorado Dublin, Ohio Lacey, Washington Ontario, California Overland Park, Kansas San Mateo, California Seattle,Washington Washington, D.C.

WorldCat bibliographic database

90.6m Books 4.6m Serials 3.6m Visual materials 1.6m Maps

3.8m Sound recordings 2.4m Scores .8m Computer files .9m Archival collections

108 million records 1.29 billion holdings

OCLC Programs and Research: Agenda

• supporting new modes of research, teaching and learning • managing the collective collection • renovatingdescriptive and organizing practices • modeling new service infrastructures • architecture and standards • measurement and behaviors

trends and events in the information industry

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Graphic: “FooBar” by eBoy, Berlin

The Information Community

Membership Reports/Studies

• 84% use search engines to begin an information search • 2% begin an information search on a libraryWeb site • 90% are satisfied with search engines • libraries = books

Trends in social networking

• Social Networking audience grew by 64 million users in first half of 2008 • Facebook is world’s largest with 120 million+ users • MySpace has saturated the US market • hi5 is exploding !

Source: www.insidefacebook.com (July 27, 2008)

Facebook statistics

• started in Harvard dormroom in 2004 • 600 employees • 120 million+ active users • #1 social media site (6 million groups) #1 photo sharing application (10 billion photos) #4 most-trafficked website in the world (comScore) • Over 55,000 regional, work-related, collegiate and high school networks • 24,000 applications built on the platform

Facebook usage

20 minutes
time average user spends on Facebook per visit(Facebook)

32 pages
number of pages per visit
(Alexa)

Most common activities
• Browsing profiles • Using applications • Browsing pictures
(Freiert, 2007)

Demographics of Facebook 2008

Visits to Social Networking Sites

29%
Monthly or less

37%
Daily

34%
Weekly

71%
Once a week or more

25 Facebook Apps for Education
For Students
•Books iRead: Share books, reviews•DoResearch4me: Gather information using a thesis statement •Flashcards: Create flash cards to help you study on Facebook •Wikiseek Search: Find Wikipedia articles through Facebook •SkoolPool: Get the lowdown on schools •Rate My Professors: What other students think of professors •JSTOR Search: Find full text research articles •Notely: Wrangle calendar, notes, assignments, etc. •Study Groups: Groupproject collaboration •Get Homework Help: Connected with tutors and students •SwapRoll: Trade text books and save money •Notecentric: Take and share notes inside Facebook •Class Notes: Find scanned notes for classes

For Teachers and Administrators
• BookTag: Share, loan books and create quizzes • Webinaria: Record and share videos • Mathematical Formulas: Distribute formulas and solutions •...