Stephen Downes

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Recent Posts

Why Student Debt Burden is Falling Like a Stone
When the Times Higher Education Rankings Fail The Fall-Down-Laughing Test
The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada
Skills not Research
Higher Education in Developing Countries is Getting Harder
Post-Soviet Higher Education
Measuring Teaching Quality
Carleton’s Loyalty Oath
Trends in Canadian University Finance
MOOCs at Five
The Return of Peter Nicholson
An Amazing Statscan Skills Study
Loving It
“Xenophobia”
Can Ottawa Do Innovation?
New Quality Measurement Initiatives
Has everybody lost their damn mind?
UBC Strategic Plan
Work-Integrated Learning: We Can Do Better
Ant Colonies and the Art of Managing Universities
Time for a MOOC reckoning
Standardization vs. Differentiation
Black Wednesday
Approaches to Marking
Time to Talk Workloads
Credit Hours
Academic Freedom in a Pandemic
Work in 2030
How Not to Write About a Pandemic
Arresting Decline
The University of Calgary’s New Strategic Plan
That Future Skills Council Paper
The Future of Internationalization
Measuring Community and Social Engagement
Examining Learning Experiences During COVID
A Very Canadian Innovation Proposal
Taking Your Marbles and Going Home
That Alberta PSE Strategy (Finally)
All Hands on Deck
Support > Illumination
Truth and Reconciliation Updates
State of Postsecondary Education in Canada, 2021
Provincial governments get an incredible bargain from universities
Experimental Evidence on Student Assistance
Lock-in
The Impact of Impact
Book of the Year
DIY Economic Impact Studies
How Big Consulting thinks about Higher Education
The Evolution of Micro-credentials and Short Courses
A Tech Talent University?
Anticipating Market Demand
Breaking the Discipline/Degree Nexus
The Dog That Didn't Bark
Northern Post-secondary Education
Fin (pour l’instant)
The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, 2022
The Decline of American Higher Education
Viewpoint Diversity
Budgets, Control, Incentives, Rankings | HESA
Reducing Work
Nova Scotia and the Politics of Listening
Administration vs. Academia
Why Student Debt Might be About to Rise
EdTech with Phil Hill
Higher Education in China
A Research Agenda for Canadian Higher Education, Part 1
No One is Coming to Save Us
Eating the Future
OECD Education at a Glance, 2024
Some Notes on Global Funding of Higher Education | HESA
Carnage
The Blight on the Ivy
"Eating the Future" in Action
Unrest and Reform: Bangladesh’s Youth Movement and Higher Education with Sharowat Shamin
From 36,000 to 12,000: Tracking the Decline in EU Students Post-Brexit with Paul Wakeling
From Jazz to Symphony
The Meaning of 2025 | HESA
More Eating the Future
Re-capturing the early 80s
How We Choose to Respond to Crises
Nobody is Coming to Save Us, But...
Observations and Suggestions about Boards of Governors
EDI and the Measurement of Merit
Innovation Without Borders: Galileo's Networked Approach to Better Higher Education System
Election 2025: The Liberal Party Manifesto
The End of Participation Growth
Five Rules for 2025-26
Turning the Corner
Testing Times & Interesting Discussions
Profit, Education, and Student Grants | HESA
Massification and its Unacknowledged Trade-offs | HESA
Trust Requires Change Requires Trust
The Small-Tent Path to Disaster
Royal Roads University: A Canadian University Without Tenure or Senate
Higher Education Beyond the Public Good