1) The document discusses moving from scarcity to abundance of learning resources through connecting infrastructure like Ariadne, GLOBE, and standards to create globally interconnected resources. 2) It argues that abundance can act as a "motor for innovation" but the focus then needs to shift to personalized user experiences that treat each learner like a unique "snowflake." 3) Learning from users will help turn the potential problem of abundance into a solution by providing resources that are "just right" for each individual learner.

1. From Scarcity to Abundance
of learning resources:
Ariadne and
the Snowflake Effect
Stakeholder AgLR-TF, Budapest, Hungary, 6 November 2009
Erik Duval
K.U.Leuven & ARIADNE & IEEE LTSC
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
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2. Thanks - merci - gracias -
dank -
- köszönöm
for the invitation !
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3. http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval
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4. My team:
technology enhanced
learning, music & research

5. learning is
(the essence
of being)
human
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6. all learning resources available to all
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7. will not solve all the problems
but will act as motor for innovation
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9. Searchability
http://globe-info.org/
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10. Open
Educational
Resources
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11. technical core
• content: anything digital
• metadata: LOM
• minimal application profile
• harvesting: OAI-PMH
• open target with all metadata from all
• federated search: SQI
• registry: LODE
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12. Sure, there are a lot of problems remaining...
identity (people, content), dis-/re-aggregation,
IPR & copyright, packaging & format, user
tracking, vocabularies, and many more
But we are not making full use of what we have!
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15. there are other communities like yours...
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16. 131.436
http://lreforschools.eun.org/

17. 126.763
http://portal.mace-project.eu/

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

19. > 3.000.000.000 images
facebook
> 10.000.000.000

20. > 80.000.000 videos
upload:
20 hours video/min

21. 44.000 sites
20.000.000 users
1.900.000 courses
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22. “Better problem”: abundance
but still a problem...

23. snowflake
• not only because all learning is personal
• and should be “just right”
• also because we are moving to abundance
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24. 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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25. snowflake in music...
nice bootstrapping, too!
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26. We do NOT (need to) understand how music works!

27. warning:
design is difficult...
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28. http://erikduval.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/laptop-fun/
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29. integrated
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/alocom/alocom_plugin/alocom_plugin.swf
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30. http://www.pri.univie.ac.at/~derntl/icoper/oics/demo/search-demo.html
http://www.pri.univie.ac.at/~derntl/icoper/oics/demo/wiki-demo.html

31. Visual & Social
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~hmdb/infovis/delicious/del.icou.us%20visualization.html
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33. http://sharetec.celstec.org/gddf/mace_AR.mov

35. Context-aware Recommendation for Learning
podcasting!
http://www.stellarnet.eu/

36. so
• make infrastructures interconnect globally
• ariadne, globe, standards
• please join!
• create abundance as motor for innovation
• then focus on user experience
• personal, snowflake
• turns problem of abundance into solution
• learn from your users
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37. http://aspect-project.org/ http://www.icoper.org/ http://www.role-project.eu/ http://www.stellarnet.eu/
Questions?
http://erikduval.wordpress.com/
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
twitter: @ErikDuval
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