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Uplifting the Poor 2/16/13 Henrik Hansson and William Jobe

Finding Quality Content Online? Finding the trees in the forest …

Henrik Hansson and William Jobe, Stockholm University


Lost in content!


The forest !   ~ 50 Billion web pages indexed by Google (http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/)

!   72 hours of video uploaded on YouTube every minute (http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics)

!   Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs)

!   4,000,000 entries in Wikipedia in English

!   Over 42,000,000 blogs

!   ~1 Billion Facebook users (Coursera is growing faster)

!   Where do you start? What is reliable and trustworthy? Where is the quality?


Finding content!


549 Nobel Prizes! 1901 -‐ 2011, 830 Laureates and 23 organizations have been awarded the Nobel

Prize

Awarded to one Laureate

Shared by two Laureates

Shared by three Laureates

Physics 47 29 29

Chemistry 63 22 18

Medicine 38 31 33

Literature 100 4 -‐

Peace 62 28 2

Economic Sciences 22 16 5

Total number: 332 130 87

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Nobelprize/country Uplifting the Poor 2/16/13 Henrik Hansson and William Jobe

Nobel prize !   Personal and objecIve

!   Universal applicaIons – globally relevant knowledge

!   Globally developed – quality assured and free

!   Natural sciences – accepted everywhere (social science/conflicts)

!   Discovery, history of ideas

!   Texts, audio, films, games


Educational games: motivation

Moving from fun to deep knowledge


Available quality material

Medicine Blood Typing Control of the Cell Cycle Diabetes and Insulin DNA -‐ RNA -‐ Protein DNA -‐ the Double Helix Ear Pages ECG/Electrocardiogram Immune Responses Immune System

Malaria MRI Nerve Signaling Pavlov's Dog Split Brain Experiments The Cell and its Organelles The Genetic Code Tuberculosis Vitamin B1


Available quality material

Chemistry

Chirality

Conductive Polymers

Plastics

The PCR Method

Nuclear Weapons

Prisoners of War

Economics

Trade

Literature

Find the Authors

Lord of the Flies

Peace

Conflict Map

Democracies in the World


MOOCs !   Elite Universities offering a variety of free

courses

!   MIT OpenCourseWare

! Udemy

!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eW3gMGqcZQc


Knowledge graph in action


The trees !  Nobel

!  Accredited MOOCs such as Edx

!  Khan academy

!  Wolfram Alpha

!  Google Knowledge graph

! We.learn.it


Mindset


? !   What type of knowledge do citizens and society

need?

!   Can this be fulfilled with what is out there?

!   Does mindset matter?

!   Formal vs. informal learning activities !   Control? !   Integrated in school? !   Independent learners?


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