How do you knowif your research is succesful?And why should it matter?

For you?

erik duvalK.U.Leuven & ARIADNE & ProLearn

http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd 1

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•Alan Keye

•Ted Nelson

•Alfred Bork

•Andy Van Dam

•Doug Engelbart

•Seymour Papert

•Alan Keye

•Ted Nelson

•Alfred Bork

•Andy Van Dam

•Doug Engelbart

•Seymour Papert

•Alan Keye

•Ted Nelson

•Alfred Bork

•Andy Van Dam

•Doug Engelbart

•Seymour Papert

Impact?

From searching to finding ... and then?

what are we really trying to achieve and

how do we know we are making progress?

From searching to finding ... and then?

“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth”

Open measures of progress

X-prize

• private

• manned

• > 100 km

• twice 2 weeks

➪ $ 10 million

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Open measures of progress

X-prize

• private

• manned

• > 100 km

• twice 2 weeks

➪ $ 10 million

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DARPA autonomous vehicles

2004: no success

2005: $2 million for Stanford

A teacher for every learner

open research clarity

http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/mediawiki/index.php/A_Learning_Object_Manifesto9

open research clarity

http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/mediawiki/index.php/A_Learning_Object_Manifesto9

Open about what went wrong too!

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

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

for learning?

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Thanks!

Questions?http://www.ariadne-eu.org

http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikdhttp://www.prolearn-project.org/