Designing for times of abundance

The Snowflake Effect

Erik DuvalK.U.Leuven & ARIADNE & IEEE LTSC

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LACLO, Merida, Mexico, 8 July 2009

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Muchas Gracias!

for the invitation

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I do have a home :-)

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share & reuse...

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interruptions are fine...

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learning as a root solution

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Old_man_at_Ravangla_Market.jpg

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learning is (the essence

of being) human

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technology enhanced learning

(and science and music)12

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warning:design is difficult...

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http://erikduval.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/laptop-fun/

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snowflake

• not only because all learning is personal

• and should be “just right”

• also because we are moving to abundance

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bad problem from the past:

scarcitybooks, video, audio, food, music, news, travel, clothes, cars, ...

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Searchability

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Better problem:abundance

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what does “exponential” mean?

if you fold a sheet of paper 50 times,then how thick is the result?

about the distance to the sun...

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OpenEducationalResources

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> 3.000.000.000 images

facebook> 10.000.000.000

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> 80.000.000 videos

upload:20 hours video/min

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44.000 sites20.000.000 users1.900.000 courses

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not only learning,also science

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not that new...

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Paul Otlet (1868-1944)• “There is too much to read”...• Universal Decimal Classification• Mundaneum

Vannevar Bush (1890-1975)• Memex

Jim Gray (missing...)• Unlocking peer-reviewed literature• PubMed for other sciences

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Do numbers matter?

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a “better problem”

paradox of choice

from scarcity to abundance

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Solution:massive hyper-personalization

Better problem: abundancestill a problem...

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The Snowflake Effect

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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

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snowflake in music...

nice bootstrapping, too!39

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http://www.aristomusic.com/ Thursday 9 July 2009

Electronic forms are dead

but metadata are very much alive ;-)

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social?

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needssocial relationships

to work

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enablessocial relationships

to work

more effectively, at larger scale, faster, ...

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http://wakoopa.com/erikduval

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http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/edmedia/

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Shazam for conferences?

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SCIENCE2.0 FOR TEL

1st Workshop onWeb2.0 approaches, tools and technologies

to support research onTechnology Enhanced Learning (TELSci2.0)

at the 4th European Conference onTechnology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL09),

Nice, France, September 29 - October 2, 2009

http://stellarnet.eu/science2ectel/

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We want your feeds!http://stellarproject.w

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in my teaching...

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walled garden...

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in the end...

learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is learning is life is life is learning is life is learning is

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that’s it?

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• The one thing I take away from this talk is ...

• This is relevant to my research & teaching because ...

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Thanks!

Questions?http://erikduval.wordpress.com/http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd

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http://aspect-project.org/ http://www.icoper.org/http://www.role-project.eu/ http://www.stellarnet.eu/

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