Interactive Technology in Education (ITK) –conference is the largest conference in Finland about information- and communication technology in educational use. This year the theme is Carpe Diem – create the future. There are some interesting presentations including several blogging related presentations this year. I’m also sitting with representatives from the finnish media in the Web […]
Vertalingen, lever jouw bijdrage! en Voorbeelden: Met deze petitie proberen we de aandacht te vestigen van Europese beleidsmakers op de gevaren van software patenten, en dan vooral de negatieve effecten die ze hebben op onderwijs. Het gebruik van informatie en communicatie technologie (ICT) om het onderwijs in het algemeen en e-learning in het bijzonder te […]
What a title. Needs an explanation: OER= Open Educational Resource. This is the term used by the North American universities when they mean the course content in their open course websites. Concept analysis: Openness is good. Education is important but not a necessity. Resources are important. LER = Libre Education Resource. This is the term […]
I have been reporting to the Flosse Posse about the MobilED initiative I am working on right now in South Africa for couple of weeks. It’s been a busy week. We got the first service up and running and are starting testing with it in a school next Wednesday. The prototype MobilED service is a […]
Översättningar, Bidra! se en Vad är detta? Syftet med denna petition är att uppmärksamma europeiska myndigheter och beslutsfattare på farorna med mjukvarupatent och i synnerhet på de negativa effekter som mjukvarupatent riskerar att få för utbildning och lärande. IKT är numera oumbärligt verktyg för att leverera utbildning som kan möta individens behov och förmåga och […]
Übersetzungen, eine Übersetzung beitragen! de en Worum geht es hier? Diese Petition zielt darauf ab, europäische Behörden und Entscheidungsträger vor den Gefahren von Softwarepatenten und speziell vor den negativen Auswirkungen für den Bildungsbereich zu warnen. Die Nutzung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie (IKT) zur Unterstützung von Lernprozessen (eLearning) hat in Europa einen wichtigen Stellenwert und auf […]
March 14 2006 (Brussels, Belgium) Sign now the petition that aims to alert European authorities and policy-makers to the dangers of software patents, and particularly to the negative impact they could have on e-learning that uses information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance education. All the European and international e-learning practitioners, as well as other […]
UPDATE: Aug 4, 2006 As the discussion on software patents in e-learning is getting more attention now, we remind you that you can still sign our petition – the campaign opposing software patents in e-learning in on-going! So, ignore the deadline in the text and keep passing the message on to your friends, colleagues and […]
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia has stated the vision of the Wikipedia to be: ”Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.” According to the International Telecommunication Union in 2004 the Internet penetration on the planet […]
I am right now in South Africa starting the MobilED initiatives’ first school tests. More information about the products, services and testing of them will be soon in the MobilED web site. I am going to report some highlights – if there will be any – of the MobilED in Flosse Posse, as well. Today […]
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