The  Snowflake  Effect

Prof.  Dr.  Erik  DuvalKU  Leuven,  Belgium

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

The Snowflake Effect

Mupple Series, Open UniversityMilton Keynes, UK, 13 July 2011

Erik Duvalhttp://erikduval.wordpress.com and @ErikDuval

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Thanks - merci - gracias - dank u- köszönöm - Vielen dank -

ありがとうございますσας ευχαριστώ

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for the invitation !

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http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval

My team:

technology enhancedlearning, music & research

and language technologies & computer graphics

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abundance as motor for innovation

(not as solution to all problems!)

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all learning resources available to all

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Searchability

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http://globe-info.org/

MEC

MESC

MSU

NCTE

ARIADNE Harvester

BMBWK

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INDIRE

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open is not the goal, it’s a start

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open is not an excuse: user focus!

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http://erikduval.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/laptop-fun/

so? evaluate & iterate ...

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General Information

Academic Information

Social networks &

Sharing

http://lreforschools.eun.org/

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

“Better problem”: abundance

but some way to go...

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44.000 sites20.000.000 users1.900.000 courses

“better problem”

but still: a problem

from scarcity to abundance

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snowflake

• because all learning is personal

• and should be “just right”

• because we are moving to 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

snowflake in music...

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We do NOT (need to) understand how music works!

Not unlike google/bing/...

But: we can add learning to the mix!

Snowflaking assignments

we are should be teaching studentsto solve problems we don’t knowusing technologies we don’t know

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getting into student’s lifes

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walled garden...

in the end...

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Questions?

http://erikduval.wordpress.com/twitter: @ErikDuval