Presented via video conference to "Developing Contextualized Learning Resources for Agriculture,Agroforestry and Natural Resources Management in Tertiary Education", Nairobi, Kenya, 13 April 2010

1. From Scarcity to Abundance:
the Snowflake Effect
Developing Contextualized Learning Resources for
Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources
Management in Tertiary Education
Nairobi, Kenya, 13 April 2010
Erik Duval
K.U.Leuven & ARIADNE & IEEE LTSC
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erik.duval
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2. Thanks - merci - gracias - dank u-
köszönöm - Vielen dank -
MANY thanks
for the invitation !
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3. http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval
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4. My team:
technology enhanced
learning, music & research

5. all learning resources available to all
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6. will not solve all the problems
but will act as motor for innovation
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8. Searchability
http://globe-info.org/
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9. Open
Educational
Resources
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10. 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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12. communities are different...
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13. http://lreforschools.eun.org/

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

15. snowflake
• because all learning is personal
• and should be “just right”
• because we are moving to abundance
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16. 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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17. snowflake in music...
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18. We do NOT (need to) understand how music works!

19. not always easy...
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21. http://sharetec.celstec.org/gddf/mace_AR.mov

22. 22 http://sites.google.com/site/kulmoreapp/

23. conclusion
• we’d love to work with you
• all learning resources available to all
• snowflaking to move beyond abundance
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24. 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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