Stephen Downes

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In Our Time: Science
The corridor of uncertainty
The corridor of Undertainty

Recent Posts

Your first degree course is a MOOC
The silent majority - why are MOOC forums counterproductive?
Quality and openness
Norwegian MOOC commission
Passport for learning
Netflix and education
Publish your own interactive e-book
The emperor's old clothes
Headhunting by MOOC
Accessibility as default
Terms and conditions apply - what went wrong?
Unsocial Learning
There is no university of the future
The choreography of lectures
Invisible skills
Redefining "failure"
Sharing MOOC resources - whatever happened to open?
Goodbye Google+
Massive for-profit online courses
How would you change education if you could choose?
Creating informal online meetings
MOOCs on campus
Illusions of learning - the problem with student evaluations
Visibility in online meetings
Zoom and beyond - new variations for online meetings and conferences
2020 - the year education went online
We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when - the future of international conferences
Hooked on lecturing?
Drowning in content but what we need is community
Teaching without video meetings
Being there - that feeling we can't achieve online
Attention literacy and the value of slow learning
The age of the educational technologist
My best friend is a robot - virtual companions
AI-generated essays - time to rethink written assignments
On a personal note at a crossroads in life
The corridor of uncertainty: Do we really need to record this session?
Will AI turn the web into an information landfill site?
At the end of the corridor
Digital unravelling - losing Facebook and the transience of social media
Escaping the clutches of big tech - initiative from Norway