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Week 20, 2012 Joensuu, Finland In this year, due to presidential elections which will affect me directly, I have been following, closer than usual, different political agendas in Europe and American continents. To be informed is our right and responsibility … Continue reading →

Week 18, 2012 Joensuu, Finland Last Friday, April 28th, I was completely desperate. It was my third week sick and I was feeling trapped, tired, in need of exercise, frustrated, aghrrr…. In few words, everything was in dissonance and out … Continue reading →

Week 18, 2012 Joensuu, Finland In Mach, while giving the game design course, I was a student too of a Paper Reviewing Workshop organized by some active members of TEL. The workshop was very good. I can report that I learn. … Continue reading →

Week 17, 2012 Joensuu, Finland Much has happened since the last time I posted. Five highlights will give an idea of life events:  I read and graded over 250 essays =  WOW! A big work and huge learning experience too, … Continue reading →

The third PhD Day in year 2012 will be held Friday, April 13, 2012, 10-12 at the edTech lab, School of Computing. The tentative programme of the PhD Day in April can be found from: https://https://wiki.uef.fi/x/7ow5AQ

Week 13, 2012 Joensuu, Finland It is amazing how fast March flew away. The last lecture of my game design course was today. Still I have two exercise sessions next week, and to finalize to qualify A LOT of essays … Continue reading →

Week 10, 2012 Joensuu, Finland One motivator that impulses me to be researching in games for learning is: I love to learn and I get bored in lectures. Actually, I confess: I am not a good student even though I … Continue reading →

Week 9, 2012 Joensuu, Finland Many things are happening and seeding the seed of some others, which triggers my inner with different emotions and thoughts collapsing me in a chaos. Consequently I can get frozen in order to write good … Continue reading →

New IMPDET applications will not be processed starting from March 1, 2012. All those students applications who have contacted us before March will be processed. There will be at least six months break in the IMPDET programme concerning the new PhD student candidates. Other activities in the IMPDET programme continue normally. New student applications will be processed again earliest in September 2012. --Jarkko

The second PhD Day in year 2012 will be held Friday, March 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 6, 2012 Joensuu, Finland The first time I heard about gamification was with the work of Jane McGonigal and later in a video of Jesse Schell, I even have read about this new system of evaluation relating grades to … Continue reading →

Week 6, 2012 Joensuu, Finland 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 … Continue reading →

Week 5, 2012 Joensuu, Finland 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 … 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 →

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 [...]