Stephen Downes

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Recent Posts

The End of the (MOOC) World is Nigh
Give Me an M! Give Me a C! Blah Blah Blah To All This Theory!
Designing a Dual Layer cMOOC/xMOOC
Why Design a xMOOC / cMOOC Hybrid? LTCA Theory
Communal Constructivism and Dual Layer MOOCs
The Underlying Barrier to Education Reform
The Mirage of Measurable Success
What If The Problem Isn’t With MOOCs But Something Else?
Is It Really Possible to Re-do Ed Tech From Scratch?
Learning -agogy Overload
Universities to Futurists: The Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated.
Social Learning Environment Manifesto
Is Google Getting In To the LMS Business?
Confessions of a Massive Open Online Course Flunkie
If We Ditch The LMS, What Else Could We Re-think?
Another New Blackboard Competitor Arrives: Coursekit
The Battle For Openness In The LMS Market
Is the LMS Market Going To Slow Down Anytime Soon?
Personalized Learning Versus Dungeons and Dragons
OpenEd MOOC Archive
Setting Up a Learner Activity Hub Like #YogaMOOC or #OpenEdMOOC
Can You Automate OER Evaluation With The RISE Framework?
Are MOOCs Fatally Flawed Concepts That Need Saving by Bots?
Ed-Tech Retro-Futurism and Learning Engineering
The Learning Stylesâ„¢ Industry Versus Learning Preferences
A Template, a Course, and an OER for an Emergency Switch to Online
QM and the Politics of the “Unbiased” Bias
The Problem of Learning Analytics and AI
Online Proctoring is Not Essential
Using Learning Analytics to Predict Cheating Has Been Going on for Longer Than You Think
We Know Why You Hate Online Learning – and It Has Nothing to Do With Quality
Are We in the Upside Down? Course Hero, Lumen Learning, and All Kinds of Strange Things are Afoot in Ed-Tech
Is AI Generated Art Really Coming for Your Job?
Stop Trying to Make AGi Happen, It’s Not Going to Happen!
Why Do Ai Cheerleaders Respond to Critics the Way They Do? (Part 3) – EduGeek Journal
Ai is Everything That is Not Needed in Education