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Stephen Downes

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Taken collectively, these ten papers reflect the core can of the cognitivist / instructivist account of learning science. To me, they're little better than phrenology, based on a paradigm where made-up entities and effects are cobbled together to create metaphor-based accounts that serve political and ideological ends better than they do any serious study of learning, inference and discovery. But hey, some people swear by them.

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