Stephen Downes

I think the same trends reported here are happening in education. Here are the three major factors: first, economic, "that many organizations either lost technical staff or, in the worst cases, went entirely extinct"; second, innovation, "problems that incentivized innovation have been solved. Good software, often free, is available"; and third, an inward shift, "news companies grew their technical teams and better integrated them into the organization, making it less necessary for staffers to find community among colleagues elsewhere." All true, I think, for education as well, though I might add that as institutions (and the staff in them) retrench, other sharing among individuals outside institutions is growing in different ways. Via Ben Werdmuller.