Category: Open Source

The title is a chapter in a new book by Juha Suoranta & Tere Vadén. Here is an introdcution of the book from the blog of the book, where you can also download the full book: WIKIWORLD – Political Economy and the Promise of Participatory Media In the digital world of learning there is a […]

We started today on Wikiversity an experimental course with an online class. The topic of the course is “Composing free and open online educational resources”. The course is targeted for teachers and teacher-students who do not have prior knowledge or skills related to free and open education resources. More than 70 people registered to the […]

In our research group we have been now working with the idea of “future learning environments” for more than 10 years. By the way the FLE visuals with green grass, blue sky and some clouds was designed by a colleague, a great visual designer Asta Raami, three years before this one company started to use […]

I just read from an European news paper that the Presidents of United States of America can be categorized to two classes: to the total morons and to the wannabe womanizers. This one guy who is actually all in all very difficult to categorize, is very hard to put to the first class. The issue […]

We all know that the European community is growing. What is probably some kind of news is the fact that also the European community of learning resources is steadily growing. The European community of learning resources is called LeMill. Like in many other areas of life in Europe the growth is not created by the […]

A week ago we moved to Mountain View, California ((No I do not work for Google) for six months. Like all modern migrant workers, the forth day we made a trip to the local IKEA – the little Sweden you may find nowadays almost everywhere. Even that our amazing friends have borrowed us the most […]

Sanako, a company providing language-learning technology, announced some days ago, that they are partnering with Nokia to provide a “learning solution” for Nokia’s N810 Internet tablet. Computer Business Review reports the partnership and writes something about Sanako’s and Nokia’s plans. For a long time I have been asking Nokia – I have some friends in […]

One Laptop per Child – the laptop project of the OLPC association, a North American non-profit has change the markets of low-cost mobile computers for educational sector. Even that in the OLPC there are such a multi-billion industry sponsors as the AMD, Google, Nortel, and Newscorp, the achievement of changing a whole market, or actually […]

Last year I took part in The Future of Learning In A Networked World (FLNW 2006) conference. It was really outstanding event. Since then I have been in touch with almost all the participants. This is not common with conferences. In most of the cases you go there, talk your talk, have dinner with some […]

Last week in Brussels, while giving a talk about free/libre/open source educational resources and LeMill, I realised that the role these initiative play in a teacher training have not been discussed that much. So, I’ll try to do it here now. LeMill is a teacher community. Jukka, one of the LeMill developers, just said some […]