Tammy Sumner, Assistant Professor, Center for Lifelong Learning and Design, the University of Colorado at Boulder presented a conceptual framework that guides the development of content-rich, adaptable, and adaptive learning environments powered by digital libraries along with concrete examples of this infrastructure, such as the Strand Map Service, a programmatic web service that can be used within learning environments and library interfaces to dynamically generate concept-browsing interfaces. Her lecture was entitled From Libraries to Learning and was presented at a Cornell Information Science Colloquium on October 3, 2007

Sumner referred to forces affecting education that the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the Institute for the Future have released in the form of a map that forecasts six plausible trends and cultural shifts that are likely to affect education over the next 10 years. They are: Grassroots Economics; Smart Networking; Strong Opinions, Strongly Held; The Sick Herd; The Urban Wilderness; and The End of Cyberspace.

Slides from Sumner’s talk are below:
Slides in Quicktime format.