Stephen Downes

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The Future of Online Learning and Knowledge Networks

September 29, 2004
Lecture presentation delivered to Special Session, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Adelaide, South Australia

The Future of Online Learning and Knowledge Networks, September 29

This talk outlines ways in which the 'consensus view' of e-learning technology misunderstands the technoilogical and business models offered by the internet and describes as an alternative the resource profiles picture of metadata and harvesting.

• PowerPoint Slides (58K)
• MP3 Audio, Part 1, first group (7.3M, 1 hour)
• MP3 Audio, Part 1, second group (6.1M, 50 minutes)
• MP3 Audio, Part 2, combined group (3.0M, 25 minutes)
• E-Learning in Canada wiki page
• Future Of Knowledge Networks wiki page
• Future Thinking in E-Learning wiki page
• Commentary by Albert Ip
• Comment by Geroge Siemens
• Comment by Martin Terre Blanche
• Downes Under - slideshow by Marie Jasinski

Collaboration Workshop, September 29

This workshop explored the need for and methods of collaboration available to TAFE SA staff. It was very unstructured (mostly because I didn't know what the topic was until we started).

• MP3 Audio (15.2M, 2 hours, 7 minutes)
• Flexible Learning Leaders wiki page
• Concept map of the discussion, created by Marty Cielens

This visit was sponsored by education.au.

• Photos from Adelaide, September 29-30.

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