Stephen Downes

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MOOCs: ‘dropout’ a category mistake, look at ‘uptake’?
Sugata Mitra: Slum chic? 7 reasons for doubt
MOOCs: taxonomy of 8 types of MOOC
MOOC on Human-Computer Interaction: videos have 7 fails in HCI
When Big Data goes bad: 6 epic fails
Big Data – bums on seats measures wrong end of learner
9 reasons why I am NOT a Social Constructivist
MOOC Platforms : a primer - biggies, newbies & freebooters
MOOCs: the C***** word is the problem!
A to Z of Learning
Show Your Work
A/B testing shows that Pavlovian gamification does not work
10 uncomfortable truths about the con that is University rankings
Oculus Rift: Freezers, smilers, grippers, swayers, screamers and freak-outs – resistance is futile
The Six Deadly Sins of Training
My tech prediction for 2015 - two small letters…
Why Finland is finished as role model in education
Swearing in conference presentations works!
7 reasons: Why we need to kill boring ‘learning objectives’!
Sir Ken Robinson: ‘Creative’ with the truth?
VR and consciousness – some truly freakish ideas
Is the ‘closed’ mindset of the Open Educational Resources community its own worst enemy?
7 reasons why kids right to have went apeshit over this GCSE maths question
Kohlberg's moralising and its revival - character education
10 reasons why Salman Khan is a more important educational theorist & practitioner than Ken Robinson or Sugata Mitra
ASU wants to be a new sort of University and they're getting there
10 challenging ways to get the best from your SMEs
Reading to Your Children Makes No Difference
Immersive Games Beats Classroom in Maths
ADDIE 3.0
Gardner's 'Multiple Intelligences' seductive nonsense?
Edupunk - More Ponytails Than Punk
A Learning Framework
Massive increase in words consumed
7 'Bad Language' Habits in Learning
Elliot Masie's Learning 2005
Moodle: e-learning's Frankenstein
Lecturing - Stupidest Profession?
10 Facts About Learning That Are Scientifically Proven and Interesting for Teachers
Metalearning and Learning Styles
The True Cost of Informal Learning
Performance and ADDIE Models
The Immersion and Analysis Continuum in Simple to Complex Environments
10 ways to keep courses short
Transcript of keynote speech, "Don't Lecture Me"
ADDIE Backwards Planning Model
Should the Door be Closed or Open: Thoughts on the Social Learning and Reflection Continuum
Kinect for Christmas: future unleashed!
Abandon lectures: increase attendance, attitudes and attainment
A Look Behind Robert Gagnè's Nine Steps of Instruction
Recording can improve a bad lecture! 7 surprising facts about recorded lectures
Going online way forward for education says Gordon Brown
Mapping the Performance
21st Century Skills are so last century!
Kirkpatrick's Revised Four Level Evaluation Model `
Caves paintings: Savants not savages. Were caves and their paintings early simulators?
3D printers: gimmick or game changer?
We have fetshised 'Leadership', we're all leaders now, rendering the word meaningless
10 reasons why 2015 is the year of the MOOC
How I got blocked by Tom Peters - you must bow to the cult of Leadership or be rejected as an apostate
Why the tablets in schools debacle is over
10 amazing ways Blockchain could be used in education
Do we really need all of this 'mentoring' malarkey’?
Could AI replace teachers? 10 ways it could?
Little tribute to Tim Berners-Lee from the learning community
Wikipedia’s bot army - shows us the way in governance of AI
Has L&D been hijacked by ‘identity’ politics?
Blockchain looking more and more like a ball and chain?
10 recommendations on HE from OEB Mid-Summit (Reykjavik)
47% of jobs will be automated... oh yeah...10 reasons why they won't
Could this be the worst piece of online learning ever? Let me explain why it may well be…
Agile training at Jurys Inn– used AI to produce in minutes not months
Voice is here - online learning has been traditionally 'nil by mouth' but not now....
Summarising learning materials using AI - paucity of data, abundance of stuff
OEB Berlin… AI, video, learning analytics, data, and schnapps!
Video for learning –15 things the research says – some may shock you…
Wellness, Happiness and Mindfulness - Holy Trinity of bogus therapy culture
100 learning theorists... 2500 years of learning theory...
Pixel is a powerful, portal, personal pocketful of AI....
Emotion in Learning Experience Design - Norman's 3 facets; Visceral, Behavioural and Reflective...
Engagement - most used yet most misunderstood word in learning?
Lifelong learning is a conceit. Life is not a course. To live is to learn
Starlink changes everything. It may be the most important form of learning technology of the century
Why is ‘AI and Ethics’ work mostly a waste of time?
Disabling video may be better for online teaching and collaboration
Henry Giroux
Victoria Marsick on 'Informal' and 'incidental' learning. Technology (EPSS, LXPs, LRSs, AI, Data) now implementing her ideas...
Lakoff - embodied and emotional mind - man of metaphor
Damasio & Immordino‐Yang - Role of emotion in learning
Krug Don't make us think
20 reasons why the Metaverse may not work out as we think it will
Philosopher of the Multiverse - Baudrillard
Metaverse - a look into the possible abyss
Is handwriting better than typing for note taking? Surprisingly, it's not!
Futurelearn may not be a going concern
Microsoft launched ChatGPT-3, but Google also have a great hand, in fact they have a bird in the hand...
AI and learning is about to get a massive boost
PedAIgogy- new era of knowledge and learning where AI changes everything
Are we on the verge of having a 'Universal Teacher'?
Personalised tutors - a dumb rich kid is more likely to graduate from college than a smart poor one
Can machines have empathy and other emotions?
Is Ethics doing more HARM than GOOD in AI for learning?
University enrols two AI students - fascinating experiment
Speech with ChatGPT.... honestly, it is amazing
Are the LMS & VLE dead! Accenture and Udacity draw new line in sand


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