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Business models and FLOSS in education

In last several weeks I have been traveling heavily. In number of conference presentations, meetings and private discussion many brilliant people have presented many interesting ideas. I’ll sum-up here some of them. Many of the thoughts are in a way or another related to the question how are the business models of using free and […]

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Graham Attwell at ITK’05, Finland

I had the pleasure to meet Graham Attwell from KnowNet here in Finland. He had in mind to contact me that he is coming to Finland but forgot about it. By accident, we ended up giving a presentation at the same workshop on 20th April at the ITK conference (Interactive Technology in Education (ITK) -conference […]

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How Flickr could become the largest learning material repository in the world?

I wrote two weeks ago an article about the Creative Commons and learning materials to the edu.fi – website. Edu.fi is an educational portal published by the National Board of Education, Finland. At the moment the article is only in Finnish but they have some plans to translate it to Swedish. The same story will […]

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Fle3 1.5 is here – and you are the first to know about it

We just released a new version of Fle3 software – a web-based software for collaborative learning, knowledge building and jamming. Our main developer Tarmo Toikkanen just sent me a note that the new package is now online in Fle3 project’s website for downloading. Tarmo also asked me to announce the release in our project’s mailing […]