From Scarcity to Abundance
of learning resources:
Ariadne and
the Snowflake Effect
Stakeholder AgLR-TF, Budapest, Hungary, 6 November 2009
Erik Duval
K.U.Leuven & ARIADNE & IEEE LTSC
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
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Thanks - merci - gracias -
dank -
- köszönöm
for the invitation !
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http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval
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My team:
technology enhanced
learning, music & research

learning is
(the essence
of being)
human
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all learning resources available to all
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will not solve all the problems
but will act as motor for innovation
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Searchability
http://globe-info.org/
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Open
Educational
Resources
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technical core
• content: anything digital
• metadata: LOM
• minimal application profile
• harvesting: OAI-PMH
• open target with all metadata from all
• federated search: SQI
• registry: LODE
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Sure, there are a lot of problems remaining...
identity (people, content), dis-/re-aggregation,
IPR & copyright, packaging & format, user
tracking, vocabularies, and many more
But we are not making full use of what we have!
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there are other communities like yours...
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131.436
http://lreforschools.eun.org/

126.763
http://portal.mace-project.eu/

“Better problem”: abundance
but some way to go...

> 3.000.000.000 images
facebook
> 10.000.000.000

> 80.000.000 videos
upload:
20 hours video/min

44.000 sites
20.000.000 users
1.900.000 courses
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“Better problem”: abundance
but still a problem...

snowflake
• not only because all learning is personal
• and should be “just right”
• also because we are moving to abundance
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loads of good examples in music
iTunes Genius, last.fm, pandora.com, tunify.com, blip.fm,
deezer.com, grooveshark.com, mufin.com, yamelo.com,
jango.com, imeem.com, musicmesh.net, jiwa.fm, ...
and many many many many more
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snowflake in music...
nice bootstrapping, too!
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We do NOT (need to) understand how music works!

warning:
design is difficult...
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http://erikduval.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/laptop-fun/
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integrated
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/alocom/alocom_plugin/alocom_plugin.swf
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http://www.pri.univie.ac.at/~derntl/icoper/oics/demo/search-demo.html
http://www.pri.univie.ac.at/~derntl/icoper/oics/demo/wiki-demo.html

Visual & Social
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~hmdb/infovis/delicious/del.icou.us%20visualization.html
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http://sharetec.celstec.org/gddf/mace_AR.mov

Context-aware Recommendation for Learning
podcasting!
http://www.stellarnet.eu/

so
• make infrastructures interconnect globally
• ariadne, globe, standards
• please join!
• create abundance as motor for innovation
• then focus on user experience
• personal, snowflake
• turns problem of abundance into solution
• learn from your users
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http://aspect-project.org/ http://www.icoper.org/ http://www.role-project.eu/ http://www.stellarnet.eu/
Questions?
http://erikduval.wordpress.com/
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
twitter: @ErikDuval
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