The Snowflake Effect: open learning without barriers

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presented at OpenHolland Conference in Amsterdam on 12 June 2007

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The Snowflake Effect: open learning

without barriers

erik duvalK.U.Leuven & ARIADNE

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

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slogan warning!

http://www.kinkyangel.co.uk/ 3

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✓ open source

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✓ open source✓ open content

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✓ open source✓ open content✓ open standards

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✓ open source✓ open content✓ open standards✕Holland

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✓ open source✓ open content✓ open standards✕Holland

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Open infrastructure

for access to

all learning resources

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Searchability

6http://globe-info.org/

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networking, not taking over repositories8

OpenEducationalResources

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Open abundance

• standards based

• as A4, sewage, lightbulb, ...

• no lock-in

• plug-and-play

• platform for innovation11

platform for innovation

http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/hmdb/jt/infovis/images/globemash1.jpg

http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/hmdb/jt/infovis/images/globemash1.jpg

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platform for innovation

http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/hmdb/jt/infovis/images/globemash1.jpg

http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/hmdb/jt/infovis/images/globemash1.jpg

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

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€3.6M 37,593 resources and 97,200 assets

EUN, ARIADNE

Ministries: Austria, Catalonia, Hungary, Iceland, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

Commercial: UK, Germany, IcelandDanube University Krems (evaluation)

Europese Hogeschool Brussel (school pilots)

OAI - SQICreative Commons

folksonomies

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

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Do numbers matter?

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Do numbers matter?

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from scarcity to abundance

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a “better problem”

paradox of choice

from scarcity to abundance

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Better search?

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Better search?

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Better search?

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Better search?

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Better search?

electronic forms must

die!

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teachers

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you used last year

new since last year

other teachers like you...

used in this

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who is doing this

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learn together?

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you used last year

new since last year

other teachers like you...

used in this

context

also used by...

your peers have done

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they asked ...

who is doing this

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learn together?

thumbs up/down?

teachers learners

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Open feedback

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Open feedback

http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/empirical/ Attention metadata

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Open feedback

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Open feedback

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1.Property2.Mobility3.Economy4.Transparency

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1.Property2.Mobility3.Economy4.Transparency

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Open about what went wrong too!

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How about you?

•“share and reuse”

•“long tail”

•“paradox of choice”

•“snowflake effect”

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Thanks!

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

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

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