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Presentation
Design and Development of a Personal Learning Environment
Stephen Downes, Jun 02, 2025, CNIE 2025, Toronto

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The presentation outlines the technological and business model considerations addressing the challenges faced in the early years of PLEs, the elements of the system, and broader learning ecosystem requirements that will support PLEs in general. The is contrasted with the existing LMS infrastructure in order to highlight the pedagogical and economic advantages of an open and decentralized learning infrastructure, and advice will be provided to enable institutional support for a PLE ecosystem.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Paul Redding, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2025/06/02

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If you are not familiar with Hegel, or maybe have heard the name but that's about it, then you definitely want to give this newly revised article a look. Hegel is many things, and can't be summarized here. His logic of thesis-antithesis-synthesis is well known, as is this idea of the world spirit (Weltgeist) and of a flow or direction of history. He stands as a key bridge between Kant on the one hand and contemporary existentialism and Marxism on the other. Image: Wikipedia.

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Building Our AI Capacity: A Playlist for Educators
Eric Hudson, Learning on Purpose, 2025/06/02

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This is a pretty good assemblage of resources around AI as it related to education. There's no central theme, though the lists are arranged into topics, for example: big picture, AI literacy, ethics, and pedagogy. "The most important thing educators can do to respond to AI is to learn how to talk to students about it," writes Hudson. "Our conversations with students about AI need to be more open, more generative, and more forward-thinking."

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