Stephen Downes

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Program for Online Teaching
Jan Dlugosz University
The Ed Techie
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications
e4innovation.com
Terra Incognita
EDUCAUSE Review
International Council for Open and Distance Education
PressBooks
Journal of Interactive Media in Education
AU Press
The Ed Technie
Open Education Research Hub
The Open University
Athabasca University Press
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Recent Posts

The MOOCs that ate themselves
If education were free, what would MOOCs be?
FutureLearn & the role of MOOCs
The battle for open - a perspective
Hits & thoughts ain't evidence
The Open Virus
MOOC completion rates DO matter
The ROI on open education
Three R’s that universities care about
The role of personality in education
Lessons from the MOOC investment gold rush
2016 – the year of MOOC hard questions
Who are the Open Learners? A Comparative Study Profiling non-Formal Users of Open Educational Resources
Using Learning Design As a Framework for Supporting the Design
D'arcy's Camus Moment
Exploring New Ways of Being Open
The Keynote Equivalent?
The Reciprocity Economy
Social Objects in Education
Creating Virality in Education - Some Thoughts
In Defence of OpenLearn
Year of Future Learning - an Experiment
The Business of Education
The VLE/LMS Is Dead
Downes Vs Wiley - Cato and Cicero Revisited
Twitter Etiquette
More Twitter Types
Slideshare Is the Best OER Site?
Using learning environments as a metaphor for educational change
A Pedagogy of Abundance take 2
Big OER and Little OER
Let's play OER Roulette!
What is the learner responsibility in open education?
Digital scholarship - introduction
Open as in... doors, arms, ended?
Yeah, but who pays?
How to undermine Facebook
No country for old ideas, this
JIME relaunch
How to dismantle a sector
Twenty Years of Edtech
The non-Uberization of education
25 Years of EdTech – 2000: Learning objects
Love, Faith, Hope & Charity – the future of the OU
Models for online, open, flexible and technology enhanced higher education across the globe – a comparative analysis
Open education and the Unenlightenment
Open Research
Critically examining unbundling
Rewilding EdTech
My part in the battle for Open (universities)
Mapping the open education landscape
The zone of proximal depravity
25 Years of Ed Tech: Themes & Conclusions
The great support mystery
Connectivism and Scale
How is Digitalisation Affecting the Flexibility and Openness of Higher Education Provision? Results of a Global Survey Using a New Conceptual Model
The Open Ed identity crisis
2019 blog review
Disruption’s legacy
Digital mudlarking
25 Years of Ed Tech
Open ed as the anti-disruption
Online pivot & the absence of a magic button
Jaws and the online pivot
It’s forever 1999 for online learning critics
A new course & the untimely demise of the MAODE
GO-GN Research Methods Handbook
Educators are not risk averse and complacent
What the ALT survey tells us about the online pivot
Proctorio – Unis as custodians
No, Mr University, I expect you to die
Proctorio sponsor OEB, so it’s a no from me
Why “Uber for education” metaphors are flawed (and just rubbish)
Putting the Meh in MOOCs
Good online learning – group work
Good online learning – affordances and the online shift
The tricky questions for assessment to answer
Reviewing the ed tech angst
Metaphors of Ed Tech
The Pedagogy of Crisis
Introducing a reflective framework for the assessment and recognition of microcredentials
Oh no, it's another metaverse hot take
MOOCs and the Upside Down
25+ Years of Ed Tech: 2022 - AI Generated Content
The Haunted Lecture Hall
The newsletter as RSS
Yankee Shed Foxtrot
True voyage is return
What is the purpose of educational technology?
Don’t look back in anger (or anything else)
Say hello to PEE - your Personal Engagement Environment
Things I was wrong about: Part 1 QR Codes
Things I was wrong about pt2: The Death of the VLE
Things I was Wrong About Pt3 - The democratisation of social media
The darkish side of open licences
Things I was wrong about pt 4
Universities need to leave X
Summary execution
Let’s get specific
Models for a multi-national university – The Ed Techie
On blogging (again)
Death by Broetry – The Ed Techie