Presented at eLearn conference, Las Vegas, on 20 November 2008

1. The Snowflake Effect
Erik Duval Wayne Hodgins
K.U.Leuven & ARIADNE Autodesk
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd http://waynehodgins.typepad.com/
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2. Thanks!

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4. http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval
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5. Plan for today
• intro
• Erik
• Wayne
• YOU
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8. Erik

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10. Erik
Metadata, Standards & Interoperability, Learning Objects, ...

11. http://www.vlaamseopera.be/productiondocumentdetail.orb?doc=5491&prd=611&pgclr=armygreen

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13. Bad problem:
scarcity

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15. Searchability
http://globe-info.org/
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18. openness
‘more is different’
centering

19. Better problem:
abundance

21. > 3.000.000.000 images

22. > 3.000.000.000 images
facebook
> 10.000.000.000

24. > 80.000.000 videos
upload:
13 hours video/min

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29. 44.000 sites
20.000.000 users
1.900.000 courses
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30. >5000
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31. Solution:
massive hyper-personalization

32. The Snowflake Effect

33. snowflake in music...
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35. snowflake in music...
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36. snowflake in music...
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37. snowflake in music...
nice bootstrapping, too!
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38. snowflake in music...
nice bootstrapping, too!
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39. snowflake in music...
nice bootstrapping, too!
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40. snowflake in music...
nice bootstrapping, too!
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41. snowflake in music...
nice bootstrapping, too!
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48. The future has already arrived.
It's just not evenly distributed yet.
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49. Learning?
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50. http://erikduval.wordpress.com/
http://waynehodgins.typepad.com/
http://longslowchat.wordpress.com/
http://web.me.com/erikduval/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html
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