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Open Source

High-quality education: empowering learning in face-to-face situations

In David Wiley’s blog there is lively discussion about education as empowering and helping people. To be honest I feel a little unarmed to continue this discussion (see the comment by Jim Ellsworth). 🙂 So, I rather try to reflect the issue through an example from the Finnish education policy discussion. Finally I’ll try to […]

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Social Software

Social software may help students to stay on the golden middle road

The Swedish phrase says that one should always look for the golden middle road. The official Sweden puts it in their web site: “in the choice of two roads, we travel the third”. I love our neighbours! A while ago I discussed with my brother about our students’ attitudes towards learning. My brother is a […]

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General

Learning objects – Is the King naked?

Do you remember the H C Andersen’s story about the Emperor’s New Suit? The point of the story is that, if we strongly believe on something, and same time all those who are doubtful or non-believes are claimed to be “unfit for their office or unpardonably stupid”, the believe becomes real. To see the truth […]

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Open Source

Report: State of FLOSS and Future Opportunities

Last month I finished the first draft of a report based on the work I did previously on the Comenius Contact Seminar project. I thought there was still some valuable issues to look for in the interviews we did so here is a paper looking at them once again. As an exercise for myself, I […]

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Open Source

Subjects, objects and outcomes of (e-)learning activity system

In his post “Thoughts on this and that” Graham Attwell quoted Jyri Engeström’s post about “ Why some social network services work and others don’t — Or: the case for object-centered sociality”: “the term ‘social networking’ makes little sense if we leave out the objects that mediate the ties between people……social networks consist of people […]