MIKSIKE Learning Environment

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Winner of the
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Miksike gives away 20 000 eWorksheets in HTML and offers virtual teacher assistant services, which assist in using these materials.

Working since 1994 mostly for regular (K-12) schools in Estonia http://miksike.ee

Between Feb. 11.-17., 2001 Miksike Web servers (in Estonian) got 260 665 pageviews. The number of Estonian speaking people is approx. 1 million. Speculating that the same server is used by American learners as frequently, this server gets 10 million pageviews per day.

Expansion 
In Estonian - adult education and edutainment in the Vabrik http://vabrik.ee

Non-profit work for Russian speaking minorities living in the Baltics in collaboration with The Royal Netherlands Embassy, NCM, OSCE and others http://miksike.net

In English - a ThinkQuest  National Partner in Estonia. 
Collaborative learning in the StudentFactory http://studentfactory.org
Serving regular schools with free online content http://miksike.com

In Swedish http://elevverkstan.org


MIKSIKE's Vision
Education - Changing Needs

Today a daily NY Times contains as much news as a 17th-century man could get in a lifetime

Learning was...

… Consuming information
Learner accommodated her/himself to the study
material.

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Educational publishers served learners by selling
books and worksheets.

...Is / Will be...

… Creating your own understanding and skills
Study materials and support are accommodated
to the learners needs.



Content is free. Publishers sell collaborative learning services, which help learners to modify existing content and create their own book.

 


Estonia - Reaching eEurope in Time

 

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Having new technology is a piece of cake - money can buy it. Changing the way we work, organize and communicate is what matters

Organizational changes are complicated and slow in developed, well functioning democracies.

Estonia is young and makes a difference because the need for change is more urgent.

Just skipping the proficiency of the "the paper era" and stepping directly into eEurope ...Helping others too.

e-Declarations to the Tax Board through online banking systems since 1999/2000. e-Tax Board since 2000

Internet public access points serving people effectively since 1997. More then 100 access points created last year in public libraries.

e-Government Estonian Government Cabinet e-meetings since August 8, 2000.
All local governments connected to the Internet through the Village Road program.

e-Commerce & legislation The private sector and the state have supported the development of Public Key Infrastructure. 'Digital Signature Act' entered into force Dec 15, 2000.

e-Schools More then 80% of Estonian schools used the Internet in their everyday learning in 2000.

e-Estonians More than 35% (15 - 74 years old) use the Internet actively. 30% use online banking systems and more then 35% use mobile phones.

The look@world project
Estonian companies and the government are aiming at boosting Internet penetration in Estonia to 74 per cent, thus taking Estonia past Finland in that category in three years.

Internet hosts per 1000 inh in Estonia compared with EU countries. Dec 2000

Country

Netherlands 
Finland 
Sweden
Denmark
Austria
Ireland
Belgium
Estonia
UK
Luxembourg
Germany
France
Italy
Spain
Greece
Portugal

TLD name

nl
fi
se
dk
at
ie
be
ee
uk
lu
de
fr
it
es
gr
pt

Hosts per 1000 inh

103,6
102,7
67,1
63,4
59,4
30,0
29,6
28,6
28,6
28,0
24,8
19,1
17,8
11,5
10,4
6,3

 

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Estonian Survey of Information Society
http://www.esis.ee/

Estonian Informatics Centre
http://www.eik.ee/english/ 

Estonia helps to build and innovate, once on board!


Contact Miksike info@miksike.ee Jakobi 41, 51006, Tartu, Eesti/Estonia
Tel: + 372 742 2550 Fax: + 372 742 1841


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Text by Mihkel Pilv Drawings by Liina Tuuling