Category: Sharing economy

I am fascinated about the Wikimedia community: the people behind the Wikipedias (in 249 languages), Wiktionaries, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiversity and more…. All these projects are facilitated by the Wikimedia Foundation, where the Board of Trustees is in charge. This way the Wikimedia Foundation is like any other non-governmental organization (NGO). However, because it […]

Lately in several presentations I have (again) made the point, that we should see and think learning as a “knowledge creation”. I have also defined that: “Learning is a socio-cultural process with an intention to produce artefacts.” One selection of slides with audio is online in LeMill (see slide: 9). People have asked me what […]

This is brilliant! Have a look of the 2007 Schools Wikipedia Selection. It is about the size of a 15-volume encyclopaedia with 24 000 pictures. The articles included to the Selection were all reviewed and reorganized. There are also plans to extend and update it periodically. The Selection was made for 8-17 year old school […]

Are you interested in these themes? I bet you are. A world wide community of practice of teachers and educators are organizing free online conference with the above topic. Take a look of the conference website. The invited speakers (or keynotes, as they are called) includes: Etienne Wenger, Barbara Ganley, Stephen Downes, George Siemens, Robin […]

Wikiversity and Wikieducator are right now the two main wiki-education projects in the world. If we look for the definition of wiki, we may include LeMill to the list, even that is not build on wiki engine. LeMill is a “website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change (educational) content” (Wiki from Wikipedia). […]

I thought to post this as another comment to the longish list of comments in the Leigh Blackall’s blog post about Wikiversity and Wikieducator. First at all, I highly appreciate Wayne’s, Brent’s and Leigh’s work and hope that this post is not considered as any kind of personal attack against them. I know that we […]

“The Government is seeking to prevent an EU directive that could extend broadcasting regulations to the internet, hitting popular video-sharing websites such as YouTube. The European Commission proposal would require websites and mobile phone services that feature video images to conform to standards laid down in Brussels. Ministers fear that the directive would hit not […]

If I remember correct design theoretician Victor Papanek writes in his groundbreaking book Design for the Real World that “I feel that ideas are plentiful and cheap” (1971). Papanek was not only a designers and design theoretician. He was an educator. In all his works he seems to emphasize practice and practicing. We all are […]

John Thackara presents the power laws of innovation. I will hang out the “Thackara’s laws” to the wall of my research group’s working space. I am sure the world would be much better place if the people working with “educational systems”, “learning/teaching/educational technologies”, “computer supported collaborative learning” and “knowledge management” – for an example – […]

There is a growing trend to organize events that are breaking the established and rather rigid form of conferences. People are tired, both to listen and to give presentations with slides in a dark conference room(s). Also, only very few of us are really good speakers with charisma and interesting things to show. I guess […]