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Stephen Downes

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There's an interesting transition in this article, from its hoimage to Paulo Friere, who said " 'there is no such thing as a neutral education process" and advocated learning that helps us to "discover how to participate in the transformation of their world", to Herbert Simon, who brought us the concept of 'learning engineering' and who reminded us that "to design is to devise courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones." In the middle we have personal empowerment. "The control people have over what they create makes the experience more memorable, more lasting and more valuable." But we also have all the contradictions this creates.

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