Author: Stephen Downes

  Thanks to Jeff Rubenstein for a thoughtful comment. I agree that the division between ‘content’ and ‘paper + ink’ isn’t always the best way to approach the discussion, and should note here that it was generated as a metaphor to frame a response to a commonly raised issue. Jeff

Dear Boss, Thank you for your email about e-learning, titled ‘A message about learning from the C-suite’ which was reprinted in Chief Learning Officer.  You asked some questions and made some comments, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to reply. Thanks for asking how I’m keeping up my skills

I’m going to take Daniel Goldsmith’s excellent post Praxis and the Indieweb as a point of departure for this post. Like Goldsmith, I am a fan of the Indieweb, or at least, the concept of the Indieweb. And I’ve been involved, at least around the periphery, in its development for

I’ve had an idea in the back of my mind for a long time now, and as I get closer to a real-world gRSShopper other people can actually use I began to ask around is anyone had seen an implementation. In a word, the response was “no”. So I decided

Webinars for the new year. I did the first one last week and the rest are upcoming. All in cooperation with Maskwacis Cultural College. See https://continuingeducationi.blogspot.com/ January 18, 8:30-9 am MT Edmonton  Description Join the National Research Council’s Stephen Downes, a specialist in online learning technology and new media, for an

Unedited Automated Transcript, December 14,2020 All right, um, so hello everyone. This is Stephen Downes again, this is personal learning taking ownership of learning online parts seven now to get the best benefit you want to see what I’m sharing here fullscreen rather than and what they call gallery view

  Hi, I’m Stephen Downes videoing in from Casselman in Ontario, Canada. My talk today is called What’s Next for MOOCs. Now that might be a bit of a surprise for you because you probably read last year or maybe the year before or five years ago, that moocs are

This is an unedited auto-generated transcript from my talk today to Creative Commons Lightning Talks. Hi everyone, it’s Stephen Downes here from Casselman Ontario Canada. This presentation is for a personal learning platform and I want to advise ahead of time that I know this isn’t something like expect you

As we all know, when things shut down beginning in 2020 we had to adapt to working and learning from home. It was a hard time; a lot of people lost their jobs and a lot of companies went under. We made the rapid transition to what we called ‘remote

This is an unedited auto-generated transcript of my talk for LINC home learning professional development, November 28, 2020. All right so for the purpose of a recording and I’ve just turned on my audio here oops and I should turn on my start recording over here, all right so this

On the Futures This post is a series of short comments on the just-released document from the Canadian UNESCO chairs on the future of education. It consists of six short contributions from across the country from the various UNESCO chairs to a larger document, Humanistic Futures of Learning: Perspectives from

This is an edited transcript of my presentation ‘Reimaging Open Educational Resources’ presented November 10 2020 to the Open Education 2020 Conferemce. https://www.downes.ca/presentation/534 So what I want to talk to you today talked about with you today is open education resources. I’m going to talk about content addressable open education

  I just read a post from Mitch Resnick on the seeds that Seymour Papert sowed, and highlighted for myself this most important statement:  “Seymour rejected the computer-aided instruction approach in which ‘the computer is being used to program the child’ and argued for an alternative approach in which ‘the

This is an unedited auto-transcript of the talk delivered November 3, 2020. Hello. Hello everyone pleasure to be here today. This presentation will be in English. I’m going to be talking about open learning open networks and. Just a few just a few notes to begin our presentation. First of

This is an edited text transcript from my presentation from April 27, 2020. Presentation page (audio, video, slides): https://www.downes.ca/presentation/520  This talk is about change. It’s about the change we see individually in our homes and in our workplaces and it’s about the (Read more…) changes sweeping through society. It’s also

Responding to Donald Clark’s excellent article, Let’s move on from ‘Unintelligible Intelligences’ – IQ, Multiple Intelligences, Emotional Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence…  “Let’s take this idea further. Koch (2014) claimed that ALL networks are, to some degree ‘intelligent’….” Not just Koch. This is, of course, the core idea in Connectivism. Though as

What, again? Yes, again. Today I’m working on creating and saving a reusable Docker image of gRSShopper. I have the benefit of some previous work on this set-up, and so it might work today, so I’m documenting my process. Note: I’m doing all this so you don’t have to. You

Wait, why did he pick that? My newsletter is called OLDaily, which is short for ‘Online Learning Daily’, a title I ripped off from ‘Arts & Letters Daily’, which started publishing just a bit before mine. Readers know by now, after almost 20 years, that I cover a wide swath

Just a quite note I sent to Feedly about it’s AI tool Leo and my OLDaily workflow… I’ve been a Feedly Pro user for many years and moved to Pro+ for the AI and Twitter support. I have two major comments: – first, it’s too expensive. I’m not going to

This is an unedited automated transcript produced by my Pixel 4 from this presentation: https://www.downes.ca/presentation/526   Hi everyone. I’m Stephen Downs and I bring you greetings from my home office in Castleman, Ontario, Canada. Thank you for taking the time to watch my presentation today. It’s called being there and