Professor of New Media Design and Learning. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
I am not into conference blogging. I am just not fast enough thinker and writer to make much sense with small notes from conference presentations and discussions. I am now in the EU ELearning conference and trying to contribute something, as here is a conference blog aggregator and I think it is a great idea. […]
In the mid 1990’s the issue of connecting schools to Internet was the hot topic. Now almost all schools in Europe are connected. What happened? Not much. The problem is that the schools are connected but teachers or pupils are not. When providing ICT solutions for education we should again focus on connectivity. This time, […]
I am going to participate in the EU eLearning Conference 2006 in the beginning of July. It is a conference organized by the European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture with the Helsinki University of Technology’s Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli. The conference themes are: (1) Digital literacy for all, (2) Research, Foresight and Innovation […]
There are not too many conferences or workshops that are focusing on design and development of tools for teaching and learning. There are even less encounters where the focus is on design of tools for collaborative learning. It seems to be that in the ecosystem of educational technology the role of teachers, educators, researcher of […]
We just got from printing house two packages of books and CD-ROMs on which we have been working on for a several months. I hope UNESCO headquarters also already received their 20 boxes. A well-designed physical object feels very good in your hands. We also have an online version of the Kit – a full […]
Ulla-Maaria Mutanen wrote a piece about design as play. The article is published in English in the Finnish Design Yearbook 2006. There are seven themes in the book: imagine, ease, flow, respect, play, dare and share. The terms would make a nice tag cloud. Ulla-Maaria’s article is about “play”. In Finnish language there are two […]
Kebede Mergia from the University of Art and Design Helsinki asks me the question, who is paying who in the Open Source society? Unfortunately it’s impossible for me to answer this open question in the length it deserves, but I can point to a few resources on which I build my own understanding of the […]
In an earlier post I was claiming that the designers of the MIT’s 100$ laptop do not understand the context in and for what they are designing their tool. They seem to ignore all cultural and social factors and considerations. Now the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) website is available in fourteen languages. Among those […]
After some two years of being a full-time Linux desktop user, I think I can eligibly say this: “Please, do something about the installation of software on Linux, and soon!” You already lost me! Now at the upcoming annual Desktop Linux Summit (San Diego, US), the Free Standards Group plans to bring up the Linux […]
LeMill is the software we have been working on for some months in my research group. LeMill is a web community for authoring and sharing learning resources. LeMill (Learning Mill) is the new name for the software I have wrote about in here with the name Toolbox. At first I wrote how LeMill (that time […]
Teemu Leinonen