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Stephen Downes

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Jones's cynicism is evident in this title: here come the indicators, wait for the task corruption. The context is a discussion of the Australian government's new plan for higher education focusing on results-based funding, performance, targets and quality. David T. Jones argues that we need "quite a significant mind shift from the current simplistic, quasi-corporate decision making being adopted around learning and teaching to an approach more informed by what we know about complex systems and the motivations and cognition of human beings.

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