1. How do you know
if your research is succesful?
And why should it matter?
For you?
erik duval
K.U.Leuven & ARIADNE & ProLearn
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
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3. •Alan Keye
• Ted Nelson
• Alfred Bork
• Andy Van Dam
• Doug Engelbart
• Seymour Papert

4. •Alan Keye
• Ted Nelson
• Alfred Bork
• Andy Van Dam
• Doug Engelbart
• Seymour Papert

5. •Alan Keye
• Ted Nelson
Impact?
• Alfred Bork
• Andy Van Dam
• Doug Engelbart
• Seymour Papert

6. From searching to finding ... and then?

7. From searching to finding ... and then?
what are we really
trying to achieve and
how do we know we are
making progress?

8. “I believe that this nation should commit
itself to achieving the goal, before this
decade is out, of landing a man on the
moon and returning him safely to the
earth”

9. Open measures of progress
X-prize
• private
• manned
• > 100 km
• twice 2 weeks
➪ $ 10 million
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10. Open measures of progress
X-prize
• private
• manned
• > 100 km
• twice 2 weeks
➪ $ 10 million
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11. DARPA autonomous vehicles
2004: no success
2005: $2 million for Stanford

12. A teacher for every learner

13. open research clarity
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/mediawiki/index.php/A_Learning_Object_Manifesto
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14. open research clarity
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/mediawiki/index.php/A_Learning_Object_Manifesto
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15. Open about what went
wrong too!
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16. ...Web Science is
“web science” about
understanding
the macroscopic
network-driven
eects of the
Web, which have
evolved from the
microscopic
aspects of the
Web which he
created...

17. ...Web Science is
“web science” about
understanding
the macroscopic
network-driven
eects of the
for learning?
Web, which have
evolved from the
microscopic
aspects of the
Web which he
created...

18. Questions?
http://www.ariadne-eu.org
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
http://www.prolearn-project.org/
Thanks!
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