From scarcity to abundance,and the snowflake effect

towards excellence in elearning

Erik DuvalK.U.Leuven & ARIADNE & IEEE LTSC

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

1

2

شكراthank you for the invitation!

3

4

http

://ww

w.sli

desh

are.

net/e

rik.d

uval

learning as a root solution

5

6

http://elexforum.etqm.ae/

6

http://elexforum.etqm.ae/

e-learning?

7

e-learning?

technologyenhancedlearning

7

e-learning?

technologyenhancedlearning

7

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

e-learning?

technologyenhancedlearning

7

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

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

8

learning object

8K. Verbert and E. Duval. ALOCOM: A Generic Content Model for Learning Ob jects. International Journal on Digital Libraries, Accepted.

learning object

9

10

http://elexforum.etqm.ae/

10

http://elexforum.etqm.ae/

snowflake effectto deal with abundance

or: why searching is so ... 2006!

11

•abundance & scale change everything

•music, books, food, travel, ...

•economy of the free

•attention is the scarce resource

12

13

>5000

six weeks ago...

six weeks ago...

six weeks ago...

six weeks ago...

six weeks ago...

six weeks ago...

15

15

15

15

15

http://www.ariadne-eu.org/16

€3.6M

37,593 resources

97,200assets

http://info.melt-project.eu/

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

Searchability

20

http://globe-info.org/

Searchability

20

http://globe-info.org/

?

21

http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~hmdb/infovis/delicious/del.icou.us%20visualization.html

Visual & Social

prolearn

22

prolearn

22

prolearn

22

prolearn

22

integrated

23

24

K. Verbert and E. Duval (2007). Evaluating the ALOCOM Approach for Scalable Content Repurposing. In Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning - Creating new learning experiences on a global scale, 17-20 September 2007, Crete, Greece.

25

makes a difference!

How about you?

26

How about you?

• from scarcity to abundance

26

How about you?

• from scarcity to abundance

• “snowflake effect”

26

How about you?

• from scarcity to abundance

• “snowflake effect”

• set up Pan-Arabic network

26

How about you?

• from scarcity to abundance

• “snowflake effect”

• set up Pan-Arabic network

• interconnect for scale

26

How about you?

• from scarcity to abundance

• “snowflake effect”

• set up Pan-Arabic network

• interconnect for scale

• join ARIADNE & GLOBE!26

27

Thanks!

Questions?http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/wordpress/eduval/

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