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 […]
Author: Teemu Leinonen
Professor of New Media Design and Learning. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
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 […]
A few years back FLOSSE POSSE featured quite a few postings related to the issue of software patents and e-learning (http://flosse.dicole.org/?category=noelearningpatents). Lately, the issue has been somewhat dormant, especially here in the EU. Last week, though, the news broke out that a US jury delivered its verdict on the case of Blackboard Inc. vs. Desire2Learn […]
In our research group we have been now working with the idea of “future learning environments” for more than 10 years. By the way the FLE visuals with green grass, blue sky and some clouds was designed by a colleague, a great visual designer Asta Raami, three years before this one company started to use […]
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This guy is smart
I just read from an European news paper that the Presidents of United States of America can be categorized to two classes: to the total morons and to the wannabe womanizers. This one guy who is actually all in all very difficult to categorize, is very hard to put to the first class. The issue […]
We all know that the European community is growing. What is probably some kind of news is the fact that also the European community of learning resources is steadily growing. The European community of learning resources is called LeMill. Like in many other areas of life in Europe the growth is not created by the […]
A week ago we moved to Mountain View, California ((No I do not work for Google) for six months. Like all modern migrant workers, the forth day we made a trip to the local IKEA – the little Sweden you may find nowadays almost everywhere. Even that our amazing friends have borrowed us the most […]
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Handheld Learning Solution
Sanako, a company providing language-learning technology, announced some days ago, that they are partnering with Nokia to provide a “learning solution” for Nokia’s N810 Internet tablet. Computer Business Review reports the partnership and writes something about Sanako’s and Nokia’s plans. For a long time I have been asking Nokia – I have some friends in […]
One Laptop per Child – the laptop project of the OLPC association, a North American non-profit has change the markets of low-cost mobile computers for educational sector. Even that in the OLPC there are such a multi-billion industry sponsors as the AMD, Google, Nortel, and Newscorp, the achievement of changing a whole market, or actually […]
Last night I made the front page for the Finnish Wikiversity beta.wikiversity.org site. The Finnish Wikiversity is called Wikiopisto. I have been thinking about this for some time already. Now some friends in Finland wanted to start a reading club to read the The Wealth of Networks by Benkler, and asked me about the Wikiversity. […]
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