1. The Snowflake Effect:
open learning
without barriers
erik duval
K.U.Leuven & ARIADNE
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
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3. slogan warning!
http://www.kinkyangel.co.uk/

4. Pardon
My
English ...

5. Visualizing reuse
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/infovis/
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6. Visualizing reuse
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/infovis/
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7. Visualizing reuse
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/infovis/
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8. Abundance
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9. Abundance
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10. Abundance
food
travel
music
media
...
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11. Searchability
http://globe-info.org/
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17. networking, not taking over repositories
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18. Open
Educational
Resources

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24. Open abundance
• standards based
• as A4, sewage, lightbulb, ...
• no lock-in
• plug-and-play
• platform for innovation

25. searchability: done?
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26. searchability: done?
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27. searchability: done?
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28. From R&D into
Practice

29. acknowledge

30. acknowledge
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/katrien/reload-1/reload-1.html
http://www.ibbt.be/site/index.php?id=237&L=1

31. http://www.mace-project.eu/

32. http://info.melt-project.eu/
OAI - SQI
Creative Commons
folksonomies
€3.6M
37,593 resources and 97,200 assets
EUN, ARIADNE
Ministries: Austria, Catalonia, Hungary, Iceland, Estonia,
Finland, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Commercial: UK, Germany, Iceland
Danube University Krems (evaluation)
Europese Hogeschool Brussel (school pilots)

33. hiding everything but the benefits
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34. hiding everything but the benefits
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/alocom/
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35. Do numbers matter?
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36. Do numbers matter?
http://www.thelongtail.com/
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37. from scarcity to abundance
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38. from scarcity to abundance
paradox of choice
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39. Better search?
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40. Better search?
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41. Better search?
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42. Better search?
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43. Better search?
electronic
forms must
die!
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45. Google is so passé…
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46. Google is so passé…
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47. Google is so passé…
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48. Google is so passé…
also:
Moodle
SidWeb
Dokeos
...
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50. teachers
you used
last year

51. teachers
new since
last year
you used
last year

52. teachers
other
teachers
like you...
new since
last year
you used
last year

53. teachers
used in
this
context
other
teachers
like you...
new since
last year
you used
last year

54. teachers
also used
by...
used in
this
context
other
teachers
like you...
new since
last year
you used
last year

55. teachers learners
also used
by...
used in
this
context
other
teachers
like you...
new since
last year
your peers
you used
have done
last year this

56. teachers learners
also used
by...
used in
this
context
other
teachers
like you...
new since they
last year asked ...
your peers
you used
have done
last year this

57. teachers learners
also used
by...
used in
this
context
other who is
teachers doing this
like you... now?
new since they
last year asked ...
your peers
you used
have done
last year this

58. teachers learners
also used
by...
used in
learn
this
together?
context
other who is
teachers doing this
like you... now?
new since they
last year asked ...
your peers
you used
have done
last year this

59. teachers learners
thumbs
also used
up/down?
by...
used in
learn
this
together?
context
other who is
teachers doing this
like you... now?
new since they
last year asked ...
your peers
you used
have done
last year this

60. finding,
not
searching
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61. finding,
not
searching
RSS
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62. finding,
social
not
filtering searching
RSS
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63. finding,
social social
not
filtering searching filtering
RSS
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64. Open feedback
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65. Open feedback
Attention metadata
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/empirical/
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66. Open feedback
Attention metadata
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/empirical/
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67. Open feedback
Attention metadata
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/empirical/
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68. 1.Property
2.Mobility
3.Economy
ransparency
4.T
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69. “mass contribution”

70. “mass contribution”

71. “mass contribution”

72. user generated tools!
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73. user generated tools!
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74. user generated tools!
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75. http://news.kmi.open.ac.uk/rostra/news.php?r=56&t=2&id=51

76. From searching to finding ... and then?

77. From searching to finding ... and then?
what are we really
trying to achieve and
how do we know we are
making progress?

78. ...Web Science is
“web science” about
understanding
the macroscopic
network-driven
eects of the
Web, which have
evolved from the
microscopic
aspects of the
Web which he
created...

79. ...Web Science is
“web science” about
understanding
the macroscopic
network-driven
eects of the
for learning?
Web, which have
evolved from the
microscopic
aspects of the
Web which he
created...

80. open research clarity
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/mediawiki/index.php/A_Learning_Object_Manifesto
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81. open research clarity
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/mediawiki/index.php/A_Learning_Object_Manifesto
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82. Open about what went
wrong too!
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83. Questions?
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/
wordpress/eduval/
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd
Thanks!
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