Tolstoy has suggested that: “The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people “. In this brief presentation I am aiming to demonstrate how I have tried to do it. How I have tried to serve other people. My study is about design. According to Nelson and Stolterman design is not about […]
Author: Teemu Leinonen
Professor of New Media Design and Learning. Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
%CODE1% I play very little games and I am not into the Angry Birds. With 50 million downloads and creation of world class brand is something to appreciate, though. Well done Rovio. Last night the company’s Bird Whisperer Ville Heijari said that when international media asks how come Angry Birds comes from Finland they have […]
For some weeks now I have been busy with many things and have not found time to follow all the current issues in the new media field. The wikiLeaks saga is not yet finished. When being busy I have relied strongly to the news provided by the traditional mass media — in practice established Finnish […]
I finally finished my doctoral dissertation. The dissertation was presented for public examination on December 7th at the Aalto University School of Art and Design. The book is available at the University Book shop. At some point there will be free PDF, too. In a couple of weeks I am also going to post chapters […]
LeMill – Web community for finding, authoring and sharing open educational resources – will next week reach 15 000 community members. The growth rate is now about 100 new members every week, thanks to some new online publicity and our new and improved user interface. The number of monthly visitors is about 100 000 per […]
We just released a new version of the LeMill service — web community for finding, authoring and sharing open educational resources (OER). I think our design with LeMill is finally getting the right shape. I think it is better if I do not explain the design, as the service is just a click away. Feel […]
What is the role of education, open education and online communities in sustainable development? The classical definition of sustainable development is that we should use the global resources only so that the generation coming after us will inherit the planet in as good shape as it was when we were born. We got something from […]
Have you heard the joke of two researchers specialized in behaviorism meet on a street? The dialogue goes like this: – “Hey John, how am I today?” – “You seems to be pretty ok, so how am I then?“. Some of the basics ideas of behaviorism are used daily in (good) teaching and learning. With […]
EduFeedr is a feed reader for online courses where each participant is using his/her personal blog to publish thoughts on course readings, answers to assignments and other course related posts. We have just release a beta version of the EduFeedr software. It runs in here: http://www.edufeedr.net/ . . . and you may downloaded it from […]
I just finished co-authoring of an article for a book that will be published by (and for) the Parliament of Finland. The title of the article is “Open learning – the end of teaching?”. In it we try to explain what open education and personal learning are and what kind of scenarios there are related […]
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