The World Is Open to Collaborative Learning Sometu – Social Media As

LEARNING IN FINLAND e 02/2009 02/2009 The Association of Finnish eLearning Centre Promoter and Network-Builder in Finnish eLearning Branch THE WORLD IS OPEN to collaborative learning SOMETu – social media as a tool for learning LEARNING WHERE YOU ARe – mobile pedagogy is a genuine opportunity LAND AHOY! Finnish educators conquering virtual alnd in Second Life 4 Curtis J. Bonk: The world is open to Leena Vainio, president 01/2009 collaborative learning EDITORIAL 6 Land ahoy! Finnish educators conquering virtual land in Second Life The SeOppi Magazine is the only Finnish magazine in the field of 9 Business opportunities afforded by Second Dear SeOppi eLearning. It is a membership bulletin for the members of, and pub- Life introduced on BusinessFinland island lished by, the Association of Finnish eLearning Centre. 10 Open learning environments at HAMK journal readers The SeOppi Magazine offers up-to-date information about the latest University of Applied Sciences phenomena, products and solutions of e-learning and their use. The magazine promotes the use, research and development of e-learning 11 How to facilitate open content production and digital education solutions in companies, educational establish- and the use of social media? ments and other organizations with the help of the best experts. 12 Sometu - Social media as a tool for learning The autumn has ators in e-learning. Many companies and ital tools and employed social media in The SeOppi magazine gathers professionals, companies, communities been a very busy organisations take this opportunity to in- the marketing of their products, as well and practitioners in the field together and leads them to the sources and productive troduce their products and services, as as in the development of new products. Brokering in open learning environments offering information about e-learning. 15 time in the area there are many clients present who use But many companies are only now con- of eLearning. Nu- these products and services. The confer- sidering what should be done in this situ- Publisher: The Association of Finnish eLearning Centre merous educa- ence is an admirable venue for gaining ation: is the power of the web an oppor- Learning where you are – mobile pedagogy Vankanlähde 7, FI-13100 Hämeenlinna tionals, conferenc- an overview on e-learning trends around tunity or a threat to operations? Should 16 is a genuine opportunity Editor in Chief: Titi Tamminen es and seminars the world. And of course it is important employees be given an opportunity for Tel. +358-3-6241-5214, [email protected] around this theme to meet people in e-learning from around open sharing of knowledge and commu- Journalists: Inkeri Ahonen and Oili Salminen LeMill for teachers ISSN-number: 1795-3251 18 have been held. the world and exchange experiences and nication using various tools? Should all Circulation: 2000 copies In November, the Association of Finnish news. employees possess web communication Advertising and materials: Inkeri Ahonen eLearning Centre will organise its own Numerous online seminars have been skills? What method should be selected Vankanlähde 7, FI-13100 Hämeenlinna 20 Closing the information technology gap DCL Conference in Finland. Hopefully created alongside the conferences and for our company or organisation? Do we – communication skills for communities [email protected], Tel. +358-40-827-6378 we will meet all the Association’s mem- seminars tied to a physical location. The choose open systems or retail software? Layout: City-Mainos through voluntary action Place of publication: Kirjapaino Hermes Oy bers there, and many others also – phys- Association of Finnish eLearning Centre How can we develop media skills? There 22 Teachers on students’ heels – ical meetings every now and then in ad- will also organise several online seminars are tens of questions and the answers Cover: Shutterstock Images social media is taken hold of in AVO training Images: The Association of Finnish eLearning Centre and dition to virtual networks are a significant under the AVO project framework during may only be found in networks and the www.futureimagebank.com form of contact. the coming winter. Increasingly the con- web, from pioneers, novices, those who LTSP – quality and practical reasoning 24 to workstations At the beginning of December at On- tent of seminars is shared through Face- have tested various methods and tools. line Educa in Berlin, we will have an op- book, Twitter, the Qaiku seminar channel, And this is why numerous seminars, con- portunity to meet internationally. Online the SOMETU network, streamed videos, ferences and training sessions are nec- Open Learning and Learning Networks 26 Educa has become a significant meeting blogs and other similar tools. In addition essary, as are blended forms of sharing AVOIMET VERKOSTOT OPPIMISEEN for teachers and learners Open Networks for Learning place for Finnish and international oper- to knowedge being shared, vigorous dis- knowledge and experiences. cussion may also arise on these forums – The Association of Finnish eLearning The Association of Finnish eLearning Centre 27 and new knowledge, new ideas and new Centre is an excellent learning network. – Promoter and Network-builder in Finnish e-Learning Branch opportunities are created through discus- Our members come from a wide range sion – the power of the web at its best. of companies, organisations as well as The power of the web is part of work private members, representing a diverse changes. It challenges traditional forms of range of e-learning services and product work. Pioneer enterprises and employees producers and end-users. We invite you Leena Vainio Markku Markkula Ville Availa have courageously taken on board dig- to join us and learn with us! president chairman of advisory board vice president [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Titi Tamminen Tiina Front-Tammivirta Inkeri Ahonen development manager development manager assistant [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ARE YOU INTERESTED OF A MEMBERSHIP? Anne Rongas Kim Holmberg Isto Huvila project coordinator EduFinland EduFinland Find out more at www.eoppimiskeskus.fi [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 2 02/2009 02/2009 3 Oili Salminen Curtis J. Bonk: The world is open to collaborative learning The infinite array of learning possibilities dazzles the listener of American e-learning visionary Professor Curtis J. Bonk’s speech on current and especially future upheavals. His we-all-learn acronym crystallises ten features of future forms of learning. Curtis J. Bonk, as a blogger TravelinEdMan, works at the University of Indiana, frequently travelling around the world and taking advantage of social media and travel communication in diverse ways. From the centre of the worlds, he sends all his friends and acquaintances in Finland his best regards. he world with all its possibilities is screens will become transparent and fold- demonstrate knowledge and skills, read, school and institutions), access to learn- when the Filipino president was over- are connected to it. The issue is often of like a table set as an open learn- able, which will make their use easier.” solve tasks with the help of technology. ing object repositories and portals, learn- thrown with the help of demonstrations the affect, for example, on the develop- T ing environment from which can Bonk considers this new method to be er participation in open information com- called together through text messages. ment of a company’s skill level, employee be chosen the best titbits. Bonk’s Open source used on many democratic, as sources are open and al- munities, electronic collaboration, alter- knowledge and competence, reputation, technique is to study trends and build vi- devices most everyone has access to the internet. nate reality learning and real-time mobili- Even an open world costs innovation, number of patents, arousing sions and practices around these trends ty. The tenth ”opener” is networks of per- money the interest of partners, line of business, as to how opensourceware will make Stated simply, this new form of learning Ten educational openers = sonalised learning. The list of deployable identifying new sources of income, and learning interesting, rewarding for the means the combination of technolog- we-all-learn* tools is long: Wikipedia, YouTube, Skype, In the shadow of a recession, businesses so on. The list is rather long. The reason learner, less expensive and available to in- ic tools and teaching methods in open podcasts, blogs, microblogs, games, sim- and administrations calculate expenditure is that the object of value creation has creasingly more people. The new style is source, the application of technology in ”At first I didn’t have this we-all-learn acro- ulations, Second Life, archives, dictionar- more carefully. Social media in teaching changed. ”Issues we can’t see are now of- appropriate to learners of all ages. classrooms. ”Social media is very flexible nym, but I have written on these topics for ies and so on. and education brings something new to ten more valuable than those we can see. Deploying social networking tools is and only a lack of imagination places re- about four years now and have gradually President Barack Obama’s election consider and calculate in cost estima- This must be remembered when invest- the basic element of Bonk’s vision for the strictions on its use. We aren’t even aware collected data together to form this easi- campaign introduced in one fell swoop tions. The old calculation formulae are not ment decisions and profit calculations are future. ”In teaching situations now, we al- of all new innovations,” Bonk reminds us. ly remembered sentence. I believe it gives the new means of communication to the particularly applicable. In a business, the made,” Bonk emphasises. A set of crite- ready listen to instruction through broad- Bonk considers the information and a glimpse into the subject,” Bonk says.

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