Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

There was a time when the organization where I work was urged to be more like Fraunhofer, the German research and development organization. Now Fraunhofer is building an LMS for the German military while our organization has no interest in anything to do with learning. This I think is reflective of culture more than anything, of what is viewed as productive and practical, and what is not. Anyhow, integrated into their Moodle installation have been a chatbot, a a competence assessment app (KoApp), and "a dashboard provides them with a statistical overview of the knowledge level on each course." Here's the original press release.

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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