Some time ago the New York Times wrote about the fathers’ leave in Sweden. The articles ends with these words: In Sweden I am on the right,” Mr. Westerberg said, “but in the United States, I’m considered a Communist.” Some days ago David Wiley wrote that with the open content the Open Knowledge Foundation gets […]
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Open Source
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 […]
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 […]
In the Media Lab Helsinki, two times a year, we bring out our researchers and students from the offices, studios and classrooms to show what they’ve been busy with. This year the Spring Demo Day took place May 20th in the Lume TV-studio, with more than 200 people dropping in to see the demo presentations […]
During the last 15 years I must have attend close to 200 conferences (more than 10 conferences per year). The variety of them is remarkable: from international governmental organization’s massive gatherings of thousands of delegates, like UN’s WSIS to small, free, open space conference’s, like the Recent Changes Camp. Almost exactly three years a go […]
Last week I went to the Interactive Technology in Education 2009 (ITK) – conference. It really is a remarkable event that has took place in Finland already for 20 years: in a country of 5 million people, more than 1500 education technology experts get together every year for three days to share. My first time […]
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Telegram from A. Aalto to Aalto U.
We will soon be part of a new University in Finland, called Aalto University. “Aalto University is created through a merger between the Helsinki School of Economics, the University of Art and Design Helsinki and the Helsinki University of Technology.” The name Aalto is making references to Alvar and Aino Aalto, a Finnish architect and […]
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I do not play golf
It was again Andrea who led me to think. This time the starting point was the reference she made to Amartya Sen’s capability thinking in economics. Lately I have become more aware of my sometimes rather weird way of making connections between different ideas, having a train of thoughts. What is weird is that these […]
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Free knowledge and digital divide
Some 15 years ago I did some very basic studies on journalism. So, I know the basics: find a hook and catchy one-liners, use citations… etc. Still a journalists can surprise me – positively and negatively. This time positively. In November I made a short trip to Barcelona to visit the Unversitat Oberta de Catalunya […]
Have you used Wikipedia this year? I was asking this today in the UOC UNESCO Chair in Elearning Fifth International Seminar in Barcelona (Blog of the event). Result: 100% positive. I have noticed that in last two years more and more people are “pretty well educated” on how Wikipedia works. Almost everyone see its’ value […]
Teemu Leinonen 