I am sure you have heard the stories of fishermen in Africa with mobile phones. With their mobile phones they are today able to ask daily market prices from market places while still in the sea. This way they are able to bypass greedy middlemen transporting the fish from a harbour to the market or […]
Month: June 2007
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Microcontent for microlearning
I was last week in the Microlearning conference in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. There were many clever and nice people talking about mobile web 2.0, micro content and micro-media, corporate competence development, classrooms without walls, and QR codes. I talked about learning, knowledge building and learning environments. I learned that microlearning is learning that is enhanced […]
I am fascinated about the Wikimedia community: the people behind the Wikipedias (in 249 languages), Wiktionaries, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiversity and more…. All these projects are facilitated by the Wikimedia Foundation, where the Board of Trustees is in charge. This way the Wikimedia Foundation is like any other non-governmental organization (NGO). However, because it […]
In this article I am presenting the Edu-Mobile – An idea and concept to have a mobile phone designed for learning in the Majority World. This is all fantasy – my dream. At first, some background. I am closely following the One Laptop Per Child, also known as the $100, $130, $140, $150, $ 176 […]
Lately in several presentations I have (again) made the point, that we should see and think learning as a “knowledge creation”. I have also defined that: “Learning is a socio-cultural process with an intention to produce artefacts.” One selection of slides with audio is online in LeMill (see slide: 9). People have asked me what […]
I am very proud of our students. They are creative, hard working and willing to learn. You can locate them to the three dimensions of attitudes towards learning, but in most cases they are able to stay in the middle road. This semester I was co-coordinating and co-teaching New media and the third sector – […]
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Wikipedia Selection for schools
This is brilliant! Have a look of the 2007 Schools Wikipedia Selection. It is about the size of a 15-volume encyclopaedia with 24 000 pictures. The articles included to the Selection were all reviewed and reorganized. There are also plans to extend and update it periodically. The Selection was made for 8-17 year old school […]
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