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Stephen Downes

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The reason I'm posting this particular post in this particular newsletter is for the summary of Phipps's contribution to a Dave Cormier webcast with a single quip: "Whatever you do digitally, it's going to be more accessible to your students than not doing it." It's easy to think of online learning as substandard, or of your own contributions as not enough, but it's false thinking. In my own work, I have always positioned my thinking from the perspective of the average person who cannot afford university tuitions, not the elite who can. The comparison isn't between $50K education and online learning, it's between online learning and nothing. Today, everybody is in that boat, but the basic logic doesn't change.

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