News at the Joensuu EdTech Research Group

Preparing a lecture is actually challenging.  For me, the defiance is also personal because I enjoy to learn and I often dislike to be sitting in a lecture room. On Monday night, a friend of mine,  Alia,  post a link … Continue reading →

After deciding to stick to this blog, one thing I want to achieve is to organize its posts. When I started boggling I was clueless of my own posts: how would they look like?, about what would I write?, which … Continue reading →

Week 4, 2012 Joensuu, Finland Oh, my playful me! As much as I enjoy learning, traveling, discovering, being in the nature,….  I also like amusement parks. Actually, I should write a post of my last trip to Disney, even if … Continue reading →

In a previous post I was focusing myself on one specific question. However, today, while preparing my lecture on mobile learning I read an inspiring post from Cameron D. Norman:  Asking if Technology Can Reinvent Education is the Wrong Question. … Continue reading →

The first PhD Day in year 2012 will be held Friday, January 2, 2012, 10-12 at the edTech lab, School of Computing. For details about the programme, please visit https://wiki.uef.fi/x/DiD9

Week 3, 2012 Joensuu, Finland My memories tell me that I always have liked books. However, books for study are another issue. In my first semester on my first University (yes I have been in several of them )  my … Continue reading →

Resources and information related to the IMPDET programme is now being collected to the IMPDET Wiki Space at UEF. The IMPDET Wiki can be found from https://wiki.uef.fi/display/IMPDET/IMPDET+Wiki+Space

When I hear or read that line, it’s like a red flag in front of a bull, a warning light. It’s translation is: “Hello user experience, haven’t seen you for a while, but I got it right.” The best addition to it is: “…and no manual is needed.” © roman for You can always change [...]

week 13 of 2011 Joensuu, Finland Main activity: writing, writing and more writing On April 1st, I fulfill a promise to submit a refurbish article to be reviewed again. I  hope at the end this article will succeed! However, I … Continue reading →

Have you watched this yet? IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How does current money/economic system control your life & this world in a way that is at it’s core is systematically unhealthy? What alternative economic systems might actually promote health, peace, social good? (It’s 2+ hrs, but worth more than most movies you may take time to watch in the [...]

With our researchers we recently talked about ways to share interesting stuff. Email is for other purposes, but here: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/roman.bednarik you can find a list and feed of the things I found interesting. Send me yours! © roman for You can always change this., 2010. | Permalink | No comment Add to del.icio.us Search blogs [...]

Try to read such text in low light, such as in the evening with just a little reading lamp on. Try a wider paragraph width, larger line-spacing. A 150% of this blog will make it too. Then look away from the text. You won’t see a thing, but just nice blinds, all ‘burned’ into your [...]

Strangely enough this blog seems to become active only when the author is located in South Africa. I arrived here on Monday and this time with my better half. Our aim is to endure enjoy South African winter for three months while doing a fair bit of research/studying and also experience the world cup atmosphere. [...]