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Stephen Downes

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As I work on building the graph element in my online course (more on that in the future) I am guided in part by examples like this. That's not to say I could ever build such technology myself, but the vision here suggests a path forward in the design of online learning quite unlike the narrative sequence that dominates today. This is the Integrated Network and Dynamical Reasoning Assembler (INDRA), which "draws on natural language processing systems and structured databases to collect mechanistic and causal assertions... and assembles them into various modeling formalisms including causal graphs and dynamical models." One one level, we can imagine working with these graphs and models as learning content. But even more, we can imagine using tools like INDRA to produce (and test, and talk about) these graphs and models as an educational activity. See more at INDRA Labs.

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