Tässä selvityksessä tarkastellaan korkeakoulujen ja työelämän yhteistyö muotoja sekä sosiaalisen median hyödyntämistä osana tätä yhteistyötä. Tarkoituksena on selvittää yleisesti, millaista yhteistyötä ammattikorkeakoulut sekä yliopistot tekevät työmarkkinoiden kanssa ja miten esille nousseita yhteistyömuotoja voitaisiin tukea sosiaalisen median keinoin.

Yrjö Engeströmin ryhmän muutoslaboratorio.

Article abstract: The photo galleries of the internet have raised quite a lot of public discussion, but academic research is just beginning to pay attention to the issue. This research grabs the subject by finding out the meanings given to IRC-galleria concerning its members' social networks. The theoretical framework consists of theories of social networks and communities applied to the context of the internet. Moreover, in analysing the construction of social networks, the research material is analyzed through the concepts of ritual and performance. The research material was generated with 13 semi-structured interviews and participant observation. The interviewees were registered members of IRC-galleria, aged 12-25. Participant observation was conducted by acting as a registered member of IRC-galleria during the course of the research. The interview material was analyzed with theory-bound qualitative content analysis. Meanings given to IRC-galleria were understood as interpretations the interviewees give to their subjective experiences, and therefore also bounded to cultural meaning structures. The rituals of maintaining social networks were approached from a social constructionistic perspective: the interest was on how the social networks are reconstructed in social interaction. The central finding of the research was that already established, "offline" networks play a significant role in being a member of IRC-galleria. IRC-galleria can be interpreted as a way to maintain both local and dispersed networks in a society where group identities are not self-evident. New friendships can be established in IRC-galleria, but personal interests are significant in this, not the possibility to act anonymously, which instead was the claim of previous research. Different interaction rituals are performed for reconstructing the established social networks. IRC-galleria should not therefore be seen solely as a stage for self-promotion, but also as a medium for promoting s

Riina Vuorikari's article. In this study we conducted an investigation on the server-end log-files of teachers' Collections of educational resources in a number of content platforms. Our goal was to find empirical evidence from the field that teachers use and reuse learning resources that are in a language other than their mother tongue and originate from different countries than they do. We call these cross-boundary learning resources. We compared the cross-boundary reuse of educational resources to the general reuse figure of 20%, and find that it was either equal to or less than the general reuse. We further studied the coverage, the overlap and the pick-up rate of these resources, and propose steps that could improve the probability of discovery, use and reuse of cross-boundary resources.

An extension to the Atom feed format to express what people are doing around web. One more step towards unifiying all social networks.

ConnectedDay is a community site aimed at professional daycare providers and their most important interest groups - parents and children. Aided by technology solutions such as photo sharing, we hope to create a global community around shared interests and hopes, all related to our children.

Tutkivan oppimisen yksityiskohtainen kaavakuva

A detailed chart showing the progressive inquiry method.

The authoritative description of Progressive Inquiry.

Learning Environments research group home page and blog

LeMill is a web community for finding, authoring, and sharing learning resources.

Discussion on how LMS and CMS are fading into the margins, and social media is taking the center stage.