Stephen Downes

For the better part of two weeks in August, 2002, I wrote a daily commentary for Net*Working 2002, an online conference hosted by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework for the National Vocational Education and Training System. These pages consist of the contents of that commentary. Contents include reflections on learning communities, learning objects, Curtis Bonk, Albert Ip, flexibility, lurking, the BBC, Hegel, blended learning, fears, trust, mentoring, usability and knowledge management, corporate learning, time, crisis, communities of practice, learning games, foundations of community, Rousseau, wants, needs and representative democracy. Enjoy.