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Stephen Downes

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"Data is not the plural of anecdote". Yeah, great line. From an Eric Mazur talk about how to improve large group learning. Seb Schmoller writes, "The educational research area of Mazur's web site, with its focus on peer instruction, gender and physics, classroom demonstrations, and technology and education, is worth careful study." Maybe. But here's my great line: "research is not the plural of data." Not everything that isn't a number is an anecdote.

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