Some people are worried what will happen for publishing industry if schoolbooks and other educational resources will be delivered online under free/open license. I am not worried – and not only because I am not in a schoolbook business – but because I see that in the value chain there is job for publishers, too. […]
Author: Teemu Leinonen
Professor of New Media Design and Learning. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
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Distance working the Australian way
I have understood that in the field of distance learning there is one country that is very much ahead of everybody else. Australia. In an audio interview Martin Dougiamas, Creator of Moodle, tells how he grow up in a middle of Australia. In 1970’s he did his first years of school with four or five […]
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The EU is after us again
“The Government is seeking to prevent an EU directive that could extend broadcasting regulations to the internet, hitting popular video-sharing websites such as YouTube. The European Commission proposal would require websites and mobile phone services that feature video images to conform to standards laid down in Brussels. Ministers fear that the directive would hit not […]
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Networked groups
It’s been a busy month. First there was the trip around New Zealand with bunch of nice people with a lot of new thoughts and ideas about learning, teaching and education. After this I made a short visit to Manila and had several very good meetings in there. It looks promising that we will do […]
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Peko is here – LeMill 1.1. released
We are very happy to announce the release of version 1.1 of LeMill. LeMill is a web portal and engine for authoring and sharing free and open learning resources. You may download your own LeMill from our development site. LeMill is free/libre/open source and released under GPL. The Peko release (v.1.1) – named after an […]
Everything comes to an end, and so it seems for the long battled software patents issue in EU. The European Parliament votes in October (11.-12) about European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA), which could open doors wide open for software patents, too. Even if you don’t think that your MEP has an ear for you, think […]
The week in the Future of Learning in a network world unconference has made me to rethink the issue of learning environments: what they are? How they should be? How they emerge or how we may build them? This is a bit like coming home. Learning environments are anyway what I am interested in. First […]
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Less is more
The “travelling e-learning circus” of New Zealand is on its way. Everybody, except me is shooting pictures and recording video and audio clips like crazy. I am a kind of free rider in here – also when it comes to the producing media. I do not even have a camera with me, either audio recorder. […]
Some months ago a friend, smau, made a very valuable comment to an earlier post in this blog (look the comments). He wrote a short list of different forms of collaboration. Since then I already used the list in one study report, even that I was not sure how should I make references to a […]
Ars Electronica festival – an event of electronic and media art – starts tomorrow in Linz, Austria. Most of the events takes place during the coming weekend. Ars Electronica is, first at all, an arty event with a lot of exhibitions with (silly) “plug and play” art: robotics, flashy lights, and things like that, but […]
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