Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
On the one hand I compete with Farhad Saba's Distance-Educator.Com, a daily newsletter about online learning. But on another, more important, hand, I am a regular reader of the newsletter and support a lot of what Saba has to say. A case in point is this column. Saba point out, accurately, that despite a massive infusion of teconology into the system, the cost of learning has not gone down. Indeed, if anything, it has increased. Why? As he has argued in previous columns, higher education institutions suffer from an organizational underdevelopment. But what we need from Saba is a plan. How would he fix this? How, especially, considering the entrenchment of current organizational structures?

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