There's enough in this post to catch my eye for its different perspective (and yes, a perspective I don't agree with):
- first, the proposition that it is "ironic" that I would speak at the London School of Economics about shifting the locus of control from institutions "at one of the great institutions of the social sciences (from whom control might be wrested)," to which I respond in a comment
- the suggestion that PLEs failed because PLEX failed, even though ti was similar to things like the app stores
- a paper framing the questions he would ask me about the personal learning environment, since he and I are both still working on it
- the "technological reifications" of "idealised learning" are becoming "quite common, and becoming increasingly common in education: we should be worried about this"
- the assertion that "Downes is stuck because he's obsessed with learning. Yet, all around him he's confronted by evidence that his learning theories cannot be right (MOOCs)."
All good stuff. Well worth reading.
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