The Next Big Thing: Position Statements

THE BIG IDEA Beware the Next Big Thing

The Next Big Thing: Adaptive Web-Based Systems: De Bra et al.: JoDI

At the ACM Hypertext Conference a panel discussed "The Next Big Thing Inc." in the area of hypertext and hypermedia. The Web has been the "Big Thing" during the past 10 years, but its success has also made it very difficult to find the appropriate information in an ocean of over 3 billion pages. Whereas search engines achieve incredible precision, they suffer from the same "one size fits all" a...

Adapting to Learn, Learning to Adapt

The Next Big Thing Adaptive, or personalized, learning is becoming the next big thing in online education. By providing each student with a custom, personalized path through courses and tracking both content covered and level of attained mastery, adaptive learning platforms hold great promise for enhancing student learning and success. Adaptive course content is organized as a set of nodes in a...

What is the Next Big Innovation Management Theme?

The next big innovation management theme, what could it possible be? Are we stuck with standardizing the End to End innovation process, using innovation ecosystems and lean forever or is there more to come? There is more to come, the next big thing may be an evolutionary innovation process sucking in all kinds of best practices, it may be white spot anaylsis, helping companies to look beyond th...

Architectures for Emotional Animals and Machines

These slides were presented at a course on Artifificial Intelligence/Cognitive Science held in Germany 4th–5th March 2002. They are now being made available as background information for the discussion on Artificial Intelligence to be broadcast on BBC2 at 30 minutes past midnight on Thursday 14th March (00:30am on 15th March) 2002. This is part of the BBC/Open University series, The Next Big Th...