Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This is going to be an ongoing story for the next four months. Planning is in full flight. Colleges and universities are looking at continued online learning, shrinking enrollment, and large budget cuts. While many have said there will be on-campus classes this fall, that's just for recruitment purposes. Faculty might not be willing to teach. It will not be business as usual. Many have already announced layoffs. Public education funding, which in some places not recovered from 2008, is in jeopardy. Public education itself, according to some, is threatened. But of course they just join the millions who have already lost their jobs, and it would be naive to think that any public service job is safe today.

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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