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Open Source

From social to socialist media

The title is a chapter in a new book by Juha Suoranta & Tere Vadén. Here is an introdcution of the book from the blog of the book, where you can also download the full book: WIKIWORLD – Political Economy and the Promise of Participatory Media In the digital world of learning there is a […]

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Collaboration

Hole in the wall, i.e. self-organising systems in primary education. Audio from Dr. Mitra

I remember around 2000 when I first read about the “hole in the wall” experiments in India. These were experiments with unprivileged children, usually from slums or small villages, who were given a possibility and access to a computer and the Internet. What made a real difference with these experiments was that there was no […]

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Open Source

Wikiversity course: Composing free and open online educational resources

We started today on Wikiversity an experimental course with an online class. The topic of the course is “Composing free and open online educational resources”. The course is targeted for teachers and teacher-students who do not have prior knowledge or skills related to free and open education resources. More than 70 people registered to the […]