Professor of New Media Design and Learning. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Nokia just announced their new device – a mini laptop, a netbook with ultimate connectivity (3G/ HSPA and Wi-Fi, Bluetooth), large screen, camera, microphone etc. As such it sounds like an excellent tool for schools, learning and education in general. There is just one thing I do not like in it: it comes with Windows. […]
I was just checking the program of the Open Education Conference, OpenEd 2009, with the tagline “Crossing the Chasm”. I have two questions about the conference: 1) Why is the title “open education” and not “free and open education” or “libre education”? Isn’t the “open education” in this particular case making references specifically to the […]
In the Media Lab Helsinki, two times a year, we bring out our researchers and students from the offices, studios and classrooms to show what they’ve been busy with. This year the Spring Demo Day took place May 20th in the Lume TV-studio, with more than 200 people dropping in to see the demo presentations […]
During the last 15 years I must have attend close to 200 conferences (more than 10 conferences per year). The variety of them is remarkable: from international governmental organization’s massive gatherings of thousands of delegates, like UN’s WSIS to small, free, open space conference’s, like the Recent Changes Camp. Almost exactly three years a go […]
Internet/WWW has made remixing everyman’s right. Same time Internet/WWW has brought the idea of remixing to other types of media than audio. When the original meaning of remix “is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version” (Wikipedia), today remix can be a mixture of video clips, text and images, several images, […]
We organise the SIRTEL’09 workshop for the 3rd time this year! It’s about social media and learning resources in a large sense (e.g. educational resources, other learners, experts, tutors) and how they can facilitate teaching and learning tasks. Paper Submission by June 14, 2009 The workshop takes place in the International Conference on Web-based Learning […]
In the Media Lab Helsinki we are this week presenting and evaluating the Master thesis works of the spring graduates. Our two MA programs are relatively selective (we take about 20% of the applicants) and small (22 and 8 students). The small number of students makes it possible to have an event where our MA […]
Last week I went to the Interactive Technology in Education 2009 (ITK) – conference. It really is a remarkable event that has took place in Finland already for 20 years: in a country of 5 million people, more than 1500 education technology experts get together every year for three days to share. My first time […]
The Finnish Wikiversity – called in Finnish “Wikiopisto” – was just given its own domain under the http://www.wikiversity.org. The Finnish Wikiversity is now the tenth “official” Wikiversity in the world. You can now found us from here http://fi.wikiversity.org. In Finland, having your “own university” feels right now so good. Why? We are in a middle […]
We will soon be part of a new University in Finland, called Aalto University. “Aalto University is created through a merger between the Helsinki School of Economics, the University of Art and Design Helsinki and the Helsinki University of Technology.” The name Aalto is making references to Alvar and Aino Aalto, a Finnish architect and […]
Teemu Leinonen