Who are we?
EdMedia, Honolulu, Hawaii, 23 June 2009
Erik Duval
K.U.Leuven & ARIADNE & IEEE LTSC
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
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Who Where are we?
EdMedia, Honolulu, Hawaii, 23 June 2009
Erik Duval
K.U.Leuven & ARIADNE & IEEE LTSC
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
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http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval
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Abundance,
the Snowflake Effect
and Science
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if you fold a piece of paper 50
times, then how thick does it get?
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if you fold a piece of paper 50
times, then how thick does it get?
about the distance to the sun...
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if you fold a piece of paper 50
times, then how thick does it get?
about the distance to the sun...
http://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/pop/stats.php
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not that new...
Paul Otlet (1868-1944)
• “There is too much to read”...
• Universal Decimal Classification
• Mundaneum
Vannevar Bush (1890-1975)
• Memex
Jim Gray (missing...)
• Unlocking peer-reviewed literature
• PubMed for other sciences
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not that new...
Paul Otlet (1868-1944)
• “There is too much to read”...
• Universal Decimal Classification
• Mundaneum
Vannevar Bush (1890-1975)
• Memex
Jim Gray (missing...)
• Unlocking peer-reviewed literature
• PubMed for other sciences
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not that new...
Paul Otlet (1868-1944)
• “There is too much to read”...
• Universal Decimal Classification
• Mundaneum
Vannevar Bush (1890-1975)
• Memex
Jim Gray (missing...)
• Unlocking peer-reviewed literature
• PubMed for other sciences
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See also...
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We know how to solve this:
Snowflake effect
to deal with abundance...
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We know how to solve this:
Snowflake effect
to deal with 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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Shazam for conferences?
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How can we develop more powerful
snowflaking tools for science
(on Technology Enhanced Learning)?
Over to my Great Friend Xavier!
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STELLAR research
on
Technology
Enhanced Learning
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http://tugtc.tugraz.at/wbtmaster/courses/mlearn_startd.htm

A research
workbench of the
future?
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http://portal.mace-project.eu/

you can help!

SCIENCE2.0 FOR TEL
1st Workshop on
Web2.0 approaches, tools and technologies
to support research on
Technology Enhanced Learning (TELSci2.0)
at the 4th European Conference on
Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL09),
Nice, France, September 29 - October 2, 2009
http://stellarnet.eu/science2ectel/

http://stellarproject.wufoo.com/forms/web-feeds-for-tel/
We want your feeds!

If we get better at TEL research,
we get better at getting better with TEL!
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Questions?
http://erikduval.wordpress.com/
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
Thanks!
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http://aspect-project.org/ http://www.icoper.org/
http://www.role-project.eu/ http://www.stellarnet.eu/
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