The document discusses the "Snowflake Effect" in learning, which is the idea that personalized learning experiences can be provided for every person daily, tailored to their specific needs, interests, context and ways of learning. It promotes "mass personalization" or "meLearning" where billions of individualized "markets of one" can be supported through open learning infrastructures and interconnectivity on a global scale.

1. Snowflake Effect
open learning without barriers
erik duval
K.U.Leuven & ARIADNE
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
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2. slogan warning!
2 http://www.kinkyangel.co.uk/

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4. http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval
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5. learning as a root solution
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6. reality check...
6 http://youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

7. snowflake?
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8. The Snowflake Effect:
Wayne Hodgins
The ideal is getting to “just right*”…
• Just the right CONTENT, to
• Just the right PERSON, with
• Just the right PARTNERS, at
• Just the right TIME, on
• Just the right DEVICE, in
• Just the right CONTEXT, and
• Just the right WAY ………
* not to be confused with perfection!!
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19. food
travel
content
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media
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20. “mass contribution”
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21. “mass contribution”
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22. “mass contribution”
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29. snowflake for learning?
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30. The Snowflake Effect
Wayne Hodgins
MaSS PeRSONALiZATiON
(Or if you insist on a prefix call it..)
meLearning!
• Personalized Learning Experiences for every person every day
 all 6.6 billion of us -- every day!!
• Just for me and just right:
 Time, place, amount, device, medium, way…
 On demand, adaptive
• Markets of one: Billions of Markets
• Learning in ALL forms:
 Formal AND informal
 not just online, on computer, on screen, etc, but every where, every time
“Capitalizing on EVERY Teachable Moment”
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32. teachers
you used
last year
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33. teachers
new since
last year
you used
last year
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34. teachers
other
teachers
like you...
new since
last year
you used
last year
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35. teachers
used in
this
context
other
teachers
like you...
new since
last year
you used
last year
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36. teachers
also used
by...
used in
this
context
other
teachers
like you...
new since
last year
you used
last year
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37. teachers learners
also used
by...
used in
this
context
other
teachers
like you...
new since
last year
your peers
you used
have done
last year this
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38. teachers learners
also used
by...
used in
this
context
other
teachers
like you...
new since they
last year asked ...
your peers
you used
have done
last year this
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39. teachers learners
also used
by...
used in
this
context
other who is
teachers doing this
like you... now?
new since they
last year asked ...
your peers
you used
have done
last year this
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40. teachers learners
also used
by...
used in
learn
this
together?
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other who is
teachers doing this
like you... now?
new since they
last year asked ...
your peers
you used
have done
last year this
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41. teachers learners
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used in
learn
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context
other who is
teachers doing this
like you... now?
new since they
last year asked ...
your peers
you used
have done
last year this
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42. snowflake learning
requires
open learning infrastructure
for scale
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43. http://www.ariadne-eu.org/
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44. Searchability
http://globe-info.org/
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45. http://www.mace-project.eu/

49. http://info.melt-project.eu/
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EUN, ARIADNE
Ministries: Austria, Catalonia, Hungary, Iceland, Estonia,
Finland, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Commercial: UK, Germany, Iceland
Danube University Krems (evaluation)
Europese Hogeschool Brussel (school pilots)
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50. Open feedback
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51. Open feedback
Attention metadata
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/empirical/
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52. Open feedback
Attention metadata
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/empirical/
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53. Open feedback
Attention metadata
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/empirical/
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54. 1.Property
2.Mobility
3.Economy
4.Transparency
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55. 1.Property
2.Mobility
3.Economy
4.Transparency
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56. How about you?
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57. How about you?
• not scarce & search
but abundant & find
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58. How about you?
• not scarce & search
but abundant & find
• “snowflake effect”
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59. How about you?
• not scarce & search
but abundant & find
• “snowflake effect”
• fight not invented here
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60. How about you?
• not scarce & search
but abundant & find
• “snowflake effect”
• fight not invented here
• interconnect for scale
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61. How about you?
• not scarce & search
but abundant & find
• “snowflake effect”
• fight not invented here
• interconnect for scale
• join LACLO & Globe !
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62. Questions?
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/wordpress/eduval/
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
Gracias!
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