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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\nCreative solutions and participation in change<\/h4>\n
The keynote speakers were\u00a0Aleks Krotoski<\/em>,\u00a0Abigail Trafford<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Pasi Sahlberg<\/em>. According to Aleks Krotoski, we have shifted in education from top-down storytelling to participation and personalization. In society, there is a constant struggle about who will be heard and who is able to participate. Abigail Trafford wondered how people’s longevity affects society. Elderly people are studying and working longer; their strategic skills are better than those of younger employees and should be utilized at work. Learning should be part of all life stages.<\/p>\n Although I\u2019d heard Pasi Sahlberg\u2019s presentation before, it was the most interesting one here. Sahlberg spoke about the success factors of Finnish education: equality and the university training of teachers. In the future, according to Sahlberg, the core of teaching should be creativity, problem solving and empathy – the human skills that smart devices lack.<\/p>\n My constant favorite among the Educa events is Thursday night’s OEB debate. This year, teams argued whether students\u2019 dependency on social media should be reduced. The debaters Marc “Digital Native” Prensky and Claire Fox opposed the idea, while Joe Edelman and Julia Hobsbawn defended. As usually, a lively argument, especially given Julia Hobsbawn\u2019s outstanding debate skill. Thanks to her, the vote of the winner ended almost to a dead heat inspite of social media friendly audience.<\/p>\n The seasoned guru\u00a0Stephen Downes<\/em>\u00a0continued to advocate persuasively for open materials and learning environments. According to him, the creation process of traditional textbooks is too slow, and vendors of closed platforms think primarily of their financial interests. In my own session, I also talked about open publishing and the diversified use of social media channels in eductional communication. In the discussions that followed, it became apparent how difficult the publicity related to open publishing is for education professionals. Our e-problems seem to be still mainly cultural, not technical.<\/p>\n This year, Online Educa provided more space for joint discussions, with the length of presentations shortened accordingly. I think this arrangement works well and reflects the lines of online pedagogy.<\/p>\n After a two year break, I attended the Online Educa Berlin conference. The conference is still going strong. This year the event drew more than two thousand well-informed professionals from 80 countries, and the arrangements were again excellent. Over 2\u00a0000 e-learning professionals gathered at Online Educa Berlin. The traditional OEB debate asked whether students should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-konferenssit-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The OEB debate\u00a0\u2013 great infotainment<\/h4>\n
Challenges of open sharing<\/h4>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n Participants in my session. The presenters:\u00a0Gordana Benat<\/em>, me,\u00a0Marit Nieuwenhuys<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Vasilis Tsilivis<\/em>;\u00a0Nives Kreuh<\/em>\u00a0chaired. The largest groups were the Dutch and the Danish; with\u00a0Marjaana Kareinen<\/em>\u00a0we wondered about the small number of Finns.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"