In the mid 1990’s the issue of connecting schools to Internet was the hot topic. Now almost all schools in Europe are connected. What happened? Not much. The problem is that the schools are connected but teachers or pupils are not. When providing ICT solutions for education we should again focus on connectivity. This time, […]
Category: Sharing economy
Sharing economy
Kebede Mergia from the University of Art and Design Helsinki asks me the question, who is paying who in the Open Source society? Unfortunately it’s impossible for me to answer this open question in the length it deserves, but I can point to a few resources on which I build my own understanding of the […]
I’m back from ITK conference and what catched my attention was all the discussion about how can we be sure that the information we read from open systems (Wikipedia, blogs, Open Source etc.) is truthful and accurate? This concern is often voiced by teachers who see the potential of resources like Wikipedia but are afraid […]
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OER? OLR? LLR? TM
What a title. Needs an explanation: OER= Open Educational Resource. This is the term used by the North American universities when they mean the course content in their open course websites. Concept analysis: Openness is good. Education is important but not a necessity. Resources are important. LER = Libre Education Resource. This is the term […]
The Wikimedia community (e.g. Wikipedia, Mediawiki software and many more) is voting on Wikiversity idea. Wikiversity is a project “to build an electronic institution of learning that is relying on the wiki model”. The voting is made for making a decision on if the community should launch the project or not. I have rather contradictory […]
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We need a Freedom Press!
Free operating system, free software and free content are all great for us who have direct access to computer technology. However a huge majority – actually several billion people – of the world do not. If we want that “every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge” (Wikipedia Mission […]
What strikes me the most these days is that everyone is talking about sharing in the commons. There is an increased amount of contributions in the commons without any financial interests. People have discovered, that the value of information and knowledge increases when shared. This is the world I’ve been living in during the eight […]
Teemu Leinonen 