Stephen Downes

I like what Tim Klapdor is doing with Bloom's Taxonomy, both in the last post and in this post. "What I'm really trying to achieve is a more three-dimensional version of Bloom's. Learning has height, breadth, and width – but the affective and operative components have often been lost. These are often dismissed as 'soft skills' or treated as trade-specific concerns, but they matter deeply in higher education. Higher education that includes vocational training and degrees in which cognitive, affective, and operative development are genuinely intertwined." Quite so. There's a lot to be discovered analyzing these concepts in detail - though at any point it may be tempting to crystalize that emerged in a far too quick abstraction.