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Think Different

Agile Companies have converged their Business & IT worlds and consistently exhibit superior revenue growth and net margins relative to their industry groups. - Wikipedia:Business-Agile Enterprise

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Experiment

"I can't believe that!" said Alice."Can't you?" the queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again, draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things.""I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Lewis Carrol, Through the Looking Glass

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A Platform Upon Which Others Can Build

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Affinity

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Communities

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Connectedness

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Next Gen Activity

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Data Clustering& Visualization

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Learner Profile

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Machine Learning

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Engagement

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Retention

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Passion

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Change the World

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Communities

"It takes a village to raise a child." - African Proverb

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Community Building

• Class • Program• Knowledge Area• Area of Interest• Ad Hoc

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Affinity

Vitals• Persona, Presence, XMPP, Ratings, Tagging, Micro-bloggingWhy• Promote collaborative learning features• Promote autonomy-supportive learning • Establish a “Learner Profile”Roadmap• MAJOR - Blogs• MAJOR - Graphs• MAJOR - Communities• ?? - AntiLibrary

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Data Clustering & Visualization

Vitals• Lives across ER / Affinity / Tempest• Analytics Task Force - Retention / Engagement / Predictive Outcomes• Track Collaborations as Activity - Connectedness / Social Graph• Research-based Design - Communities

Roadmap• Incubating / early POCs

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Graphs

“A walk through the city that would cross each bridge once and only once. The islands could not be reached by any route other than the bridges, and every bridge must have been crossed completely every time (one could not walk half way onto the bridge and then turn around and later cross the other half from the other side). Euler proved that the problem has no solution.” - Wikipedia: Seven Bridges of Konigsberg

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Connections --> Graphs --> Questions --> Heuristics

Hypothesis• Observing connections can develop emergent graphs

• of people• of content (curricula & user-generated)• of results

• Questions can be asked about collaboration, relationships, interest, motivation, innovation

• Heuristics can be developed• what benefits the class• what benefits the individual• what contributes to knowledge creation

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Context in Scientific Body of Knowledge

• Random Graph Theory• Scale-Free Networks• Self-Organization• Collective Intelligence• Rewards Systems

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Context in Education Body of Knowledge

• Social Constructivism• Social Constructionism• Social Cognition• Situated Learning• Problem-Based Learning

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Context in the Learning Platform

• Platform supports events from the domain model• Events are observed as a “Property Graph” (multi-relational

network)• Property Graph can be navigated and visualized• Vertices and Edges can be drilled-down to the source content /

person / result by interrogating the domain model

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Context in Technology

• Events– Tempest Prospero

• Persistence – GraphDB || NoSQL || RDBMS / DW– FlockDB || OrientDB || Neo4J

• Navigation– Gremlin || native libraries || new algorithms

• Visualization– embedded || rich client

• Drill Down / Recommendations– WSOD || 3rd Party APIs

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Architecture

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Personal Network Questions

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Classroom Questions

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Content / Interest Questions

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Antilibrary

"The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and non-dull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with ‘Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?’ and others - a very small minority- who get the point that a private library is not an ego boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real estate market allow you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call the collection of unread books an antilibrary." - The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Imagining the Antilibrary

• Playing to Passions (Interest-sensitive)• Context Sensitive (Relevance-sensitive)• Passion might be more important than Engagement & Influence• Reimagine:

– webliography– portfolios

• Sources– Search (internal / external)– Google Scholar– Publisher Content (possibly program level curricula)– Bibliometric systems– Wikipedia / “wiki book creator”– Semantic Web

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Discussion

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Image Attributions“Charlotte” and “Genevieve” - Steve Hill“Vision” - http://www.livestrong.com/article/227800-natural-vitamins-for-glaucoma/“Values” - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Hands_of_God_and_Adam.jpg“Planets are yet to be discovered” - http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~12~12~64247~168690:The-Rocky-World-of-Young-Planetary-“Business Goals” - http://static-p3.fotolia.com/jpg/00/03/17/32/110_F_3173209_0QNG9FHRYvoQIp4fuIKrsGHA3wgCEl.jpg“A Platform Upon Which Others Can Build” - http://mappery.com/map-of/Tokyo-Subway-Map“Customers” - Pearson“Products” - http://www.designwalker.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbs/first-photo-collage25.jpg“Cheetah” - http://winnipeganimals.blogspot.com/2010/07/but-not-cheetahs.html“Horton” - http://moviemusereviews.com/archive-review-horton-hears-a-who-2008/“Tempest” - http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Travel/Brunei/BruneiStorm.jpg“Prospero” - http://britishshakespeare.co.uk/pics/filming_prospero_fire.jpg“Hydra” - http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5wyknom2Nnw/Sb_4V5XGnwI/AAAAAAAABFA/mNOqc_f1Wfg/s200/manyheadedhydra.jpg“Engagement” - http://wedaredtodream.com/members/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/students.jpg“Data Clustering & Visualization” - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdinnen/4455387348/“Affinity” - http://sites.google.com/site/maestramiller/manos-a-la-obra-club“Communities” - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustration_of_overlapping_communities.jpg“Connectedness” - http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-3485479724“Next Gen Activity” - http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~6~6~32859~136726:KENNEDY-SPACE-CENTER,-FLA-----A-lar“Retention”- Image Copyright RichTea. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.“Learner Profile” - http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001324403/slow_learner_answer_7_xlarge.jpeg“Machine Learning” - http://ilk.uvt.nl/wopr/“Adaptive” - http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/hero-poweradapter.jpg“Change the World” - http://blogs.diariosur.es/blogfiles/rugby_en_malaga/mandela.jpg“Classroom Questions” “Personal Network Questions” - Steve Hill“Antilibrary” - http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-3610752603“Passion” - http://www.sportable.com/2007/05/29/the-top-10-home-runs-of-all-time/?replytocom=6120“Graph Theory” - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Konigsberg_bridges.png“Architecture” - Steve Hill with inspiration from: http://markorodriguez.com/services/development/recommendation-system/“Communities” - http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-906727708“Content / Interest Questions” - Steve Hill“Think Different - Agile Enterprises” - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BTM_-_Return_comparisons.jpg