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Record W4321849348 · doi:10.12753/2066-026x-13-085

INSPIRED BY THE UNEXPECTED - SERENDIPITOUS LEARNING

2013· article· en· W4321849348 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueeLearning and Software for Education · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicOnline and Blended Learning
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSerendipityInformal learningComputer scienceFormal learningDiscovery learningActive learning (machine learning)FuturistExperiential learningPsychologyWorld Wide WebArtificial intelligenceEpistemologyMathematics educationPedagogy

Abstract

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Inspired by the unexpected - serendipitous learning According to Dr. Allen Tough, futurist, scientist, professor at the University of Toronto, about 80% of learning is informal rather than professionally planned. Serendipitous learning might be considered as a subset of informal learning. Formal learning is experienced in an authority-based, course-oriented school, but nowadays, with the incredibly amounts of information that are available through the Web, a special kind of learning makes its presence felt, assuming eminence's learning that is discovery based. Serendipitous learning precipitates exploratory or informal learning which is less formal than objectives-driven approaches, but is still influenced by personal experience, goals and interests. Serendipity is the effect of discovering something really interesting, whilst looking for entirely something else, in other words a completely unintended but fortunate discovery. But serendipitous learning is associated with the idea that "we are more likely to be receptive to serendipitous discovery if our minds have undergone some prior training or preparation. Preparation, training and knowledge do not guarantee serendipitous discovery, but they do increase the probability of discovery. This skill is sometimes referred to as intuitive sagacity, in which seemingly disparate pieces of information undergo a process of mental incubation and are brought together by an external catalyst such as a research query ". This article aims to investigate and reflect on the exploratory hunger of the online learning fostered by the greatest serendipity engine in the history of culture - the Web - pointing out ssome powerful implications of this view.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.941
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.294
Teacher spread0.285 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it