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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Yet another post on learner-managed learning (aka 'personal learning'). "There is a long tradition of face-to-face learning environments that don't use any or most of those traditional schooling technologies. While many people don't know about the long history of higher education experimentation with learner-driven education, it is still flourishing, even if in small pockets... There will always be human interest in more teacher-directed and prescribed learning pathways, but these other learner-driven communities continue to play an important role in society. They foster a different type of learning, thinking, and being. They honor, support, and celebrate the goals, values, priorities, experiences, and voices of learners in ways that are rarely accomplished in legacy school environments." P.S. to Bernard Bull - put your name on your blog).

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