Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Gardner Campbell sums up the difficulties inherent in evaluating learning in a web 2.0 environment. "I agree in principle that we who work in education should be able to describe what we intend to do, and that it is important that we find a way to demonstrate to what extent we have met those goals. But that principle is a principle of almost unimaginable complexity." What this means, he argues, is that the simple measures used today are not up to the task. "I really, truly do not think that Likert scales or uniform tests or other simplistic measures are up to the task of helping us map or understand this most profound practice we call 'education.'"

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