Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

I think there is a strong overlap between cMOOCs and games. This came up at the conference in Lyon yesterday. It is striking how similar the support for an individual ina cMOOC lines up with the support for an individual in a game. This post brings out part of the reason for the similarity: "I don't think education is about centralized instruction anymore. Rather it is the process of establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity." This is Joi Ito, director of MIT's Media Lab, speaking. Ito is quoted by Jane McGonigal, a game designer and author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World during a talk called Higher Education is a Massively Multiplayer Game.

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