Presentation about open and free eduction "the wiki-way", in a collaborative free and open studies taking place in Wikiversity. Presentation given in the Estonian e-University Conference 2009: School - from teaching institution to learning space.

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Teemu Leinonen
Media Lab
http://mlab.uiah.fi
University of Art and Design Helsinki
Finland

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1. Prologue
2. Wiki
3. Wikimedia for all
4. Education for all wiki
5. Epilogue

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1. Prologue
2. Wiki
3. Wikimedia for all
4. Education for all wiki
5. Epilogue

4. Teemu Leinonen
MobilED,
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning,
future learning environment,
mobile audio wiki, CSCL, design
usability,
methodology, e-learning is dead – long live learning,
Fle3, mobile learning, learning objects,
media, web, art, design, architecture,
accessibility, social media, educational
Human-centred design.
policies,

5. Teemu Leinonen
• Education, University of Tampere • 1969 Nokia, Tampere, Finland
• New Media, Media Lab, University • 1970’s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
or Art and Design Helsinki • 1980’s-90’s Afghanistan, Kenya,
Namibia
• Learning Environments research
group 1998- • 1990’s Studies in Finland,
Sweden and USA
• Theory based, design oriented
• Progressive inquiry • 2000 in Colombia, South Africa
• Tools for creative practice
• Web and mobile • Family: Andrea and Luna
• Sociology, football, music,
diving, reading,

6. Aalto University
• Full merger between three existing universities
• Three leading institutions in Finland in their fields with
major impact on Finnish industry, economy and culture.
• Hundreds of years of history and knowledge brought
together:
• University of Art and Design Helsinki, founded 1871
• Helsinki School of Economics, founded 1911
• Helsinki University of Technology, founded 1849
• Aalto University starts on 1st of January 2010.

8. Source: by jaime.silva @ Flickr.com

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1. Prologue
2. Wiki
3. Wikimedia for all
4. Education for all wiki
5. Epilogue

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13. wiki
- World Wide Web (WWW) site that can be
modified or contributed to by users.
(Source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

14. Wikipedia
- the world most famous wiki

16. How many of you have
used Wikipedia this week?

17. How many of you have edit
Wikipedia articles?

19. • Word largest encyclopedia – ever!
• 250+ languages
• 10 000 000+ articles
• English: 2 800 000
• FI: 200 000 / ET: 60 000
• One of the world’s top 10 websites (ahead of BBC,
CNN, Microsoft etc.)
• English Wikipedia over 160 000 active users.
• FI: 2500 / ET: 400
• English Wikipedia 1600 Administrators
• FI: 50 / ET: 30
(Source: Wikimedia Foundation 2009)

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1. Prologue
2. Wiki
3. Wikimedia for all
4. Education for all wiki
5. Epilogue

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23. Wikimedia

25. Wiktionary - a dictionary in all the
languages of the world
Wikiquote – a collection of quotations from
famous people, books and speeches
Wikibooks - a collection of free study and
textbooks
Wikisource – multilingual collection of texts
that could be distributed as free and open
content

26. Wikispecies - directory of the world species
Wkinews – free news service
Wikimedia Commons - collection of free
photographs, diagrams, maps, videos,
animations, music, sounds, spoken texts,
and other free media
Wikiversity – a site for learning materials
and learning communities

27. http://www.wikimedia.org

28. Why these projects?

29. Wikispecies
- directory of the world species

31. Why not a directory of the puppets
of the Muppet Show?

33. Why?

34. Editorial decisions

35. Mission
The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower
and engage people around the world to collect and
develop educational content under a free license or in
the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and
globally.
In collaboration with a network of chapters, the
Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an
organizational framework for the support and
development of multilingual wiki projects and other
endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will
make and keep useful information from its projects
available on the Internet free of charge, in perpetuity.

36. Vision
Imagine a world in which every single human
being can freely share in the sum of all
knowledge.
That's our commitment.

37. Why Wikimedia is important?

38. lack of media
(access to media)
=
lack of education
=
many things that suck
(like: poverty, wars, no respect of human rights,
crimes, abuse, civil conflicts, lack of democracy etc.

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1. Prologue
2. Wiki
3. Wikimedia for all
4. Education for all wiki
5. Epilogue

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42. Could there be
“education for all wiki”?

43. Wikiversity

45. Examples

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2. Wiki
3. Wikimedia for all
4. Education for all wiki
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47. Think Linux
Source: Engeström, J. 2005 / 2006

48. Think Wikipedia

49. Think Skype

50. Think Blogs

51. All these are projects
started by individuals
in the open social network.

52. What about learning?

53. Learning from or
learning with technology.

56. Tänan!
Thank you!
Teemu Leinonen
teemu.leinonen@taik.fi