Short presentation given at the learning workshop of the third Digital Leaders' Programme event, HM Treasury, 3rd March 2011

1. Opening up the Academy Chris Batt Senior Research Fellow University College London

2. A landscape of paradox NATIONAL SERVICES NATIONAL OFFERS Janet network JISC JISC Collections R and D outcomes

4. “ Communities are full of people with hidden depths of knowledge and experience” “ The global community is as anonymous as the user wishes and someone who lacks formal education may communicate on equal terms with the professor ” The Phantom Carnation Grower “ How does someone with such self-discovered, self-taught skills thrive and enrich them?”

5. HE/FE wider public

7. “ Megaphones of informal learning” Martin Bean

9. Images of 1m galaxies from Sloane Sky Survey Day 1: 70k classifications per hour Year 1: 50m classifications from 150k people

10. Hanny van Arkel’s Voorwerp Green peas