The document discusses the transition from scarcity to abundance of knowledge and learning resources due to technologies like the internet and social media. It describes how knowledge is now widely available and accessible online through platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and open educational resources. However, it notes that personalizing and tailoring learning to individual needs remains a challenge given the abundance of information. The document proposes the "snowflake effect" as a way to develop highly personalized learning experiences for each learner.
From Scarcity to Abundance (and from Mass Production to Hyper-personalization) the Snowflake Effect
1. From Scarcity to Abundance
(and from Mass Production to Hyper-personalization)
the Snowflake Effect
Knowledge integration in an organizational network
Venlo, NL, 29 March 2010
Erik Duval
K.U.Leuven & ARIADNE & IEEE LTSC
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erik.duval
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2. Thanks - merci - gracias - dank u-
köszönöm - Vielen dank -
MANY thanks
for the invitation !
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18. ‘If, in your office, you, as an intellectual
worker, were supplied with a computer
display, backed up by a computer, that
was alive for you all day, instantly
responsive to every action you had,
how much value could you derive from
that?’
Doug Engelbart, 1968
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31. Searchability
http://globe-info.org/
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32. Open
Educational
Resources
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33. 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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36. Sure, there are a lot of problems remaining...
identity (people, content), dis-/re-aggregation,
IPR & copyright, packaging & format, user
tracking, vocabularies, and many more
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37. 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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59. from scarcity to abundance
“better problem”
but still: a problem
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60. snowflake
• because all learning is personal
• and should be “just right”
• because we are moving to abundance
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61. 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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