Erik Duval is a professor at KU Leuven in Belgium who focuses his research on managing and accessing structured and unstructured data, as applied to technology enhanced learning, music retrieval, and research. His team's work involves repositories, federated search, harvesting, and content management, as well as related human-computer interaction aspects. Duval advocates for making all learning resources openly available to all users. However, he notes that openness is not the goal in itself but rather a starting point, and that the focus must remain on the user experience.

2. The
Snowflake
Effect
Prof.
Dr.
Erik
Duval
KU
Leuven,
Belgium

3. Erik
Duval
• Professor
in
the
research
unit
on
human-­‐computer
interac:on,
at
the
computer
science
department
of
the
Katholieke
Universiteit
Leuven.
• Focus
on
management
of
and
access
to
structured
and
unstructured
data.
• In
prac:cal
terms:
research
into
– repositories,
– federated
search,
– harves:ng,
– content
management
• but
also
HCI
aspects
such
as
– informa:on
visualiza:on,
– mobile
informa:on
devices,
– mul:-­‐touch
displays
– and
mash-­‐ups
• Typically
applied
to
technology
enhanced
learning,
music
retrieval
and
research
2.0

4. The Snowflake Effect
Mupple Series, Open University
Milton Keynes, UK, 13 July 2011
Erik Duval
http://erikduval.wordpress.com and @ErikDuval
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5. Thanks - merci - gracias - dank u-
köszönöm - Vielen dank -
σας ευχαριστώ
MANY thanks
for the invitation !
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6. http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval
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7. My team:
technology enhanced
learning, music & research
and language technologies
& computer graphics
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8. abundance as motor for innovation
(not as solution to all problems!)
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9. all learning resources available to all
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11. Searchability
http://globe-info.org/
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13. BMBWK EUN MEC RVP
SQI UDDI OAI
SQI Client LOR Registry
OAI-PMH
Registry SQI ARIADNE C-H FWU MESC TLF
Harvester
OAI
ASPECT
CFL INDIRE MSU UL-FRI
MELT
SQI SQI
Federated EDUCATIO KUL NCTE XTEC
GLOBE Search
SPI OAI
OAI-PMH
ARIADNE
SQI Harvester
WINDS DYNAMO
ARIADNE
Harvester
MACE
MACE IRB CuminCAD
OAI OAI OAI SQI SQI SQI SQI
SQI SQI SQI
LACLO NIME EUN EdNA CGIAR Pubelo Merlot
OAI OAI SQI SQI SQI SQI
SQI SQI
ISKME KERIS III COSL LORNET Ariadne
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14. open is not the goal, it’s a start
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15. open is not an excuse: user focus!
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16. http://erikduval.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/laptop-fun/
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17. so? evaluate & iterate ...
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18. General
Information
Academic
Information
Social
networks &
Sharing
!

19. http://lreforschools.eun.org/

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

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

23. 44.000 sites
20.000.000 users
1.900.000 courses
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24. from scarcity to abundance
“better problem”
but still: a problem
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25. snowflake
• because all learning is personal
• and should be “just right”
• because we are moving to abundance
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26. 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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27. snowflake in music...
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28. We do NOT (need to) understand how music works!

32. Not unlike google/bing/...
But: we can add learning to the mix!

33. Snowflaking assignments

34. we are should be teaching students
to solve problems we don’t know
using technologies we don’t know

37. 37http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN3uUswyFGY

38. getting into student’s lifes
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43. earn

all l
too
Text
We
me
http://delicious.com/tag/mume09
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45. Pul
se o
f th
“alw e c
ays ours
on” e…
…
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47. walled garden...
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48. in the end...
learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning
is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is
learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning
is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is
learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning
is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is
learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning
is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is
learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning
is life is learning is life is life is learning is life is learning is
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49. Questions?
http://erikduval.wordpress.com/
twitter: @ErikDuval
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