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Stephen Downes

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I wouldn't limit the discussion to Xbox, and I wouldn't say all teachers commit all the errors, but it's a pretty good list, as list-articles go.
- "in a game-world, there's always someone there to teach you... there's an automatic differentiation though the games design "
- "Games let you do the same thing at different settings... LMS courses almost never do this. Its just one setting – Confusing."
- "All good games allow the game to be modded by the players in order to make it better."
- "Games just don't act as a totalitarian state, and expect players will create affinity content."
- "Attempts to gamify an LMS – result in all sorts of really bad leader boards and token collecting."

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