Last year I took part in The Future of Learning In A Networked World (FLNW 2006) conference. It was really outstanding event. Since then I have been in touch with almost all the participants. This is not common with conferences. In most of the cases you go there, talk your talk, have dinner with some […]
Author: Teemu Leinonen
Professor of New Media Design and Learning. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Last week in Brussels, while giving a talk about free/libre/open source educational resources and LeMill, I realised that the role these initiative play in a teacher training have not been discussed that much. So, I’ll try to do it here now. LeMill is a teacher community. Jukka, one of the LeMill developers, just said some […]
EMINENT conference blog
I am not able to do conference blogging. I am a slow thinker and a slow writer. However, I highly appreciate when people are documenting and making public notes from conferences in their blogs. Flosse Posse Fellow, Riina is reporting the EMINENT – European Schoolnet annual networking conference almost in real time in the conference’s […]
Creative Commons, Free Software Foundation and Wikimedia Foundation are working on to make the FSF’s GFDL and CC’s CC-By-SA compatible. This will mean that in future all the Wikimedia content (Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikimedia Commons, etc.), that are licensed under GFLD can be remixed with content using CC-By-SA. The Wikimedia Foundation’s Board made a resolution about […]
A group of people have released The Cape Town Open Education Declaration. The hope is that this Declaration will server as rallying point for the development of open educational resources similar way as the Budapest Open Access Initiative did for open access to research literature. I see the Declaration, first of all, as a statement […]
I made today a very short online tour to some of the education portals provided by the Finnish municipalities. I didn’t check them all. Actually there are more than 400 municipalities in Finland, running thousands of schools and educational institutions with hundreds of thousands of teachers and students. I didn’t look for school web sites, […]
Wikimedia is changing the world?
You all must have seen in the top of the Wikipedia pages the red link saying: “donate now”, and the tag line “You can help Wikipedia change the world!” As a critical person you are probably thinking: “hmm… these people are not too humble” or “do they seriously think that they are changing the world?” […]
Globalization, ICT and education
Last week I was giving a talk in the SOMECE’s (Sociedad Mexicana de Computación en la Educación) annual conference in Mexico. The short trip was worth of doing: many interesting projects and many clever and good people. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to go around in there. Must go back. There was not much time […]
We were today looking for some statistics of the members and learning resource in the LeMill.net. It looks that LeMill is growing smoothly. I think we are still far from a “critical mass” that will make LeMill “self-sustainable”. Still, the future looks promising. | View | Upload your own In LeMill.net we now have 1022 […]
Do not localize – make your own
In last days I have been thinking several things that at first looked very unconnected. Now I realized that they are all connected. Here we go. Localized digital content is NOT core educational infrastructure. “Wiki” is core educational infrastructure. I didn’t go to the Open Education 2007 conference. However, they nicely distribute audio and slides […]