Category: Sharing economy

This is a note to remember to come back to the topic at some point. So, do not expect anything very elaborated. I’ll still start with a quotation from Foucault (Michel Foucault from Wikiquote): There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than […]

It was fall 2006 when I proposed for several people in the Finnish National Board of Education and in the Ministry of Education to put The National Core Curricula (equivalent to “national curriculum” in other countries), on a wiki, so that the citizens could discuss about it and edit it. I got very positive replies […]

My brother is today defending his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Tampere in Finland. Because I am now in Northern California I am not able to attend the public defense of the dissertation. I got, however, the actual book on my screen and printer. Thanks to open publishing. The University of Tampere is […]

Last weekend I took part in the RecentChangesCamp – a three day open space conference for people interested in wikis and related topics. I met some new and old wiki-people, which some of them I may soon start to call my friends. I saw several interesting demos and had some quite nice discussions about wikis […]

The next issue of eLearning Papers, a series by the elearningeuropa.info-portal, focuses on Open Educational Resources (OER). The eLearning Papers looks for articles on OER and their use in education at all levels, taking into account the aspects of global development and Web 2.0. The contributions should focus on one or more of the following […]

Last night I made the front page for the Finnish Wikiversity beta.wikiversity.org site. The Finnish Wikiversity is called Wikiopisto. I have been thinking about this for some time already. Now some friends in Finland wanted to start a reading club to read the The Wealth of Networks by Benkler, and asked me about the Wikiversity. […]

In last days I have been thinking several things that at first looked very unconnected. Now I realized that they are all connected. Here we go. Localized digital content is NOT core educational infrastructure. “Wiki” is core educational infrastructure. I didn’t go to the Open Education 2007 conference. However, they nicely distribute audio and slides […]

We have a new version of LeMill. LeMill is a service (http://lemill.net) and a platform (http://lemill.org) for finding, authoring and sharing open and free learning resources. There are three major visible changes. Downloading collection. You can now download collections as either zips of web pages (static HTML) or as SCORM-packages. SCORM is a format recognized […]

I am sure you have heard the stories of fishermen in Africa with mobile phones. With their mobile phones they are today able to ask daily market prices from market places while still in the sea. This way they are able to bypass greedy middlemen transporting the fish from a harbour to the market or […]

I was last week in the Microlearning conference in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. There were many clever and nice people talking about mobile web 2.0, micro content and micro-media, corporate competence development, classrooms without walls, and QR codes. I talked about learning, knowledge building and learning environments. I learned that microlearning is learning that is enhanced […]