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
MANY thanks
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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MEC
MESC
MSU
NCTE
ARIADNE Harvester
BMBWK
C-H
CFL
EDUCATIO
EUN
FWU
INDIRE
KUL
RVP
TLF
UL-FRI
XTEC
OAI
-PM
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WINDS
IRB
DYNAMOARIADNE Harvester
CuminCAD
MELT
OAISQI
OAI
-PM
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FederatedSearch
EdNA CGIAR Pubelo Merlot
III COSL LORNET Ariadne
LACLO NIME EUN
ISKME KERIS
SQI UDDIRegistry
MACE
OAISQI
SQI SQI SQI SQI
SQI SQI SQI SQI
SQI Client
SQI
OAISQI
OAISQI
OAISQI
OAISQI
OAISQI
ARIADNE Harvester
GLOBE
OAISQI
SPI
LOR Registry
ASPECT
MACE
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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
“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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http://delicious.com/tag/mume09
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“alw
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walled garden...
in the end...
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Questions?
http://erikduval.wordpress.com/twitter: @ErikDuval