Who we are!
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Finding Quality Content Online? Finding the trees in the forest …
Henrik Hansson and William Jobe, Stockholm University
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Lost in content!
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The forest ! ~ 50 Billion web pages indexed by Google (http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/)
! 72 hours of video uploaded on YouTube every minute (http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics)
! Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs)
! 4,000,000 entries in Wikipedia in English
! Over 42,000,000 blogs
! ~1 Billion Facebook users (Coursera is growing faster)
! Where do you start? What is reliable and trustworthy? Where is the quality?
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Finding content!
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549 Nobel Prizes! 1901 -‐ 2011, 830 Laureates and 23 organizations have been awarded the Nobel
Prize
Awarded to one Laureate
Shared by two Laureates
Shared by three Laureates
Physics 47 29 29
Chemistry 63 22 18
Medicine 38 31 33
Literature 100 4 -‐
Peace 62 28 2
Economic Sciences 22 16 5
Total number: 332 130 87
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Nobel prize ! Personal and objecIve
! Universal applicaIons – globally relevant knowledge
! Globally developed – quality assured and free
! Natural sciences – accepted everywhere (social science/conflicts)
! Discovery, history of ideas
! Texts, audio, films, games
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Educational games: motivation
Moving from fun to deep knowledge
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Available quality material
Medicine Blood Typing Control of the Cell Cycle Diabetes and Insulin DNA -‐ RNA -‐ Protein DNA -‐ the Double Helix Ear Pages ECG/Electrocardiogram Immune Responses Immune System
Malaria MRI Nerve Signaling Pavlov's Dog Split Brain Experiments The Cell and its Organelles The Genetic Code Tuberculosis Vitamin B1
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Available quality material
Chemistry
Chirality
Conductive Polymers
Plastics
The PCR Method
Nuclear Weapons
Prisoners of War
Economics
Trade
Literature
Find the Authors
Lord of the Flies
Peace
Conflict Map
Democracies in the World
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MOOCs ! Elite Universities offering a variety of free
courses
! MIT OpenCourseWare
! Udemy
! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eW3gMGqcZQc
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Knowledge graph in action
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Knowledge graph in action
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The trees ! Nobel
! Accredited MOOCs such as Edx
! Khan academy
! Wolfram Alpha
! Google Knowledge graph
! We.learn.it
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Mindset
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? ! What type of knowledge do citizens and society
need?
! Can this be fulfilled with what is out there?
! Does mindset matter?
! Formal vs. informal learning activities ! Control? ! Integrated in school? ! Independent learners?
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