Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
What happens when you take an impromptu event and formalize it? Christian Long weighs in on the debate about Pearson Learning's role at Edubloggercon during NECC2008 saying that the real issue is communication - "As I hinted at above, I'm also very surprised that Steve H [Hargadon] (a man I respect and have enjoyed F2F time with in the past; a guy who has been consistently weaving together a formal network of educators the world round through a variety of digital tools) has not been asked to a) explain/defend the original contract, b) his communication before/during/after this year's "EduBloggerCon", and c) how he'd like Pearson/himself to go forward to maintain everyone's faith in his/their judgment." Ewan McIntosh also says that Edubloggercon is not an unconference. I guess this is the tension when new meets old meets new ... -HJ

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