I just got an email from a graduate student in US asking would it be possible for him to take a look of the Fle3 with a visitor user name and password. Fle3 is server software for computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) designed and developed in our research group, released in 2002 (first version in […]
Category: Collaboration
Collaboration
Last week I gave a talk in a workshop organized by the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK. The theme of the workshop was to explore the future of education in Finland. The title of my talk was “digitalization, networks and the future of education” (In Finnish: Digitalisoituminen, verkottuminen ja koulutuksen tulevaisuus). My original plan for […]
What a title. Reading it makes me smile. I am nowadays dealing almost daily with academic administration of the soon starting Aalto University. I am kindly asked to comment plans of having new ICT system, how to have ICT enhancing teaching and learning, tenure track, research assessment exercise etc. All these are important and event […]
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 […]
The concept of “Personal Learning Environment” (PLE) is getting quite a lot of hits in the edu.tech. blogs. It is often presented as some kind of new paradigm of e-learning. Still there is no proper definition of PLE, and for example Teemu Arina said somewhere that his company is his PLE. I actually like that […]
I am not a great fan of “distance learning”. I have found out that it is very difficult – if not impossible – to build real group cohesion in a distance learning program. Now I am doing my best as a coordinator and a teacher in two different distance learning programs. Here are some notes […]
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Teachers’ online communities
Stephen Downes wrote a pretty hard critics on the European SchoolNet’s SchoolPlaza – “the unique collaborative environment where teachers sharing similar interests or teaching the same subject can meet, communicate and work together”. Stephen wrote: “the Flash interface is just awful; it took a long time to load (the photos never did finish loading) and […]
I carried out a lesson at the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, under a course held by Prof. Kirsimarja Blomqvist and Lassi Köppä. It was a journey from the elements of network society, new actors like pro-ams, through FLOSS and Open Content to bottom-up emerging technologies like blogs, wikis and information aggregation. I highlighted the […]
Teemu Leinonen 