Have a look of this post, too:

http://flosse.blogging.fi/2010/02/22/a-simple-ict-devices-with-simple-linux-to-be-used-in-schools/

There are some more thoughts about using touch screen devices in schools / universities. In a case of schools one need a proper QWERT keyboard, but those with Bluetooth could be available everywhere in the campus.

Ruth: I think there are many opportunities in online language learning. For instance, have you tried Busuu (it is not from Finland, but from Spain):

http://www.busuu.com/

I think it is a great service and actually I actually considered to pay their monthly fee (7.99 €/month) to improve my Spanish. I felt that even that I have free access to one of the world best language courses in the my University (Aalto University) the price of Busuu was reasonable because it provides me freedom from time and space to study. A sad this is that just when I was becoming a paying customer they screw up: post, probably by mistake, some of my written work publicly online without my permission and never replied me when I asked about it.

Petri: What are the top US/UK Universities building and opening campuses in China or India? I haven’t seen a single one. If I am wrong, let me know.

I think trying to get to the international educational market with “content” (as it is commonly understood) would be a huge mistake. Content is still the king, the content is just today different.

We need “content” that is well-designed products, concepts, services etc. – something like a clever and affordable ICT devices for schools and universities (http://flosse.blogging.fi/2010/02/22/a-simple-ict-devices-with-simple-linux-to-be-used-in-schools/) or hmm… Busuu.

Leigh: I think the Finnish Government should hire you to run the “Education Export project”. Free hint for the Ministry of Education.

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I would very much like to see a concise ROI done for Finnish free education. A method that I could take and adjust for the Australian situation. I hope by using this tool, I might be able to show a positive ROI for a free education system in Australia.. such a thing would give a little weight to preserving free education in Finland – if Australian’s are reconsidering their export business model…

Nice to read you and see your visions about this wave of portable touching devices. In fact since I changed my usual previous laptop to a touch one (the lenovo X61) and after using with with a small portable video beam as my cheap touch blackboard I told to myself that touch computing will be the future and I don’t image myself going backwards. But I don’t thint that the slate form factor of Ipad or Archos or N900 is for everyone. I don’t image myself wirting long code or mails on a slate and lossing real state of the screen for thing that requiere a lot of it (like desing), So I think that tablets with a new interface will do it fine also in this market and will be better, for example in Universities and high school. Asus is trying some of that changes on Interface while keeping some continuity with the Windows old one interface and I think that some continuity is important, so we don’t have a intitutionalized learning environment that is disconnected from the rest of the world (the one we have now with “office centered education” is too much connected).
My point is that in this context of going from one user experience and change from a culture of PC to other ones, mixed and continuos points, from software/hardware and interfaces will be needed.

Cheers,

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If the funds don’t support content creation, there aren’t any good for sale.

Sonera is still our own trademark, I don’t know anybody else who is going to buy air…

I don’t see how Finns could sell international schools abroad though using Finnish teachers – the Finnish system could be used, but only if the teachers don’t speak Finglish, and if it’s marketed very cleverly. Also, Finland could design, sell good online courses abroad if they paid native speakers of XXX language as tutors. I wouldn’t advise it as a way to make money though, having coordinated the International Writing Exchange (IWE) since 1993. It worked well when it was free and I had groups of active students myself, but it was never a viable business product. http://www.writeit.fi/ruth/publications-and-projects/

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For me someone starting a truly private school with all the costs covered by the parents is fine, as long as they follow the national curriculum. For some reason I do not see this happening very much in any place.

The Apple’s “Knowledge Navigator” 1987 vision is pretty much everyday life today for University faculty. Thanks to Skype, Facebook, Blogs, Wikis etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WdS4TscWH8&feature=related