Stephen Downes

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Learning Design Wiki

David Porcaro, Oct 24, 2026

This is "a persistent, LLM-maintained knowledge base for learning design" containing sections (a.k.a. 'knowledge types') on "principles, elements, patterns, designs, products and programmes, strategies, design processes and methods, research methods, theories, learner variables, and empirical claims." It's in a very raw state: "models wrote this wiki, and no person has yet checked any page." Still, in broad strokes, it reflects the state of the literature, and the literature is messy: 170 principles, 1360 theories, 26495 claims. No doubt a first pass could reduce this number somewhat, but it's no wonder there's no real progress in learning time when just about every paper starts anew with a revision of the basics. 

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