OLDaily Over the Years
Still messing around with statistics. Here’s the graph of the production of posts on OLDaily over the years since the first posts in 1995: Until 1999 the only posts produced…
Stephen Downes
Measuring MOOC Media
Here’s the information I sent Steve Kolowsich for his Chronicle article on the (possible?) decline of MOOC mentions in the media: My data measures news articles from selected (and reasonably…
MOOCs for Development – Day 2
The Challenge of MOOCs Panel Stephen Downes Please see my presentation and audio here: http://www.downes.ca/presentation/339 N.V. Varghese – view from developing countries – largest expansion of the system in this…
Notes from: MOOCs for Development
Welcoming Intro Ezekiel Emmanuel – MOOCs ‘democratizing’ education? (vs? ‘socializing’) – but – access, language, etc – MOOCs – equalize opportunity for elites in developing countries – may widen inequality…
The MOOC of One
I want to talk about the MOOC of one. What I mean by that is I want to talk about the development of the MOOC or the Massive Open Online…
Like Reading a Newspaper
I’ve stated this in many times in talks and interviews, but I can’t find it anywhere in my actual text-based materials, so let’s get it on the record so people…
REL 2014
C’est avec grand plaisir que je vous annonce l’ouverture des inscriptions à notre cours en ligne ouvert et massif portant sur les ressources éducatives libres.L’inscription est à l’URL http://goo.gl/PeqkU0 Notre…
Economists and Education
Fred M Beshears writes, “Here’s an upcoming panel discussion that might address some of the issues we’ve been discussing. It will be interesting to see if the idea of ‘Open…
Where Government Money Comes From
Jacky Hood writes, > All government grant money comes from taxpayers. Unless this means, trivially, “all money comes from someone”, then the statement is false. A certain amount of money…
The OU Did Not Invent MOOCs
Responding to Fred Bershears, who writes: Here are some quotes from Berkeley professor David L. Kirp on the British Open University. They were offering MOOCs long before the term was…
Juergen Rudolph Interview
Stephen: This is an interview with with Juergen Rudolph. And it’s January 8th, 2014. Juergen: Excellent. Well so so first of all I feel very honoured that you have agreed…
Theories Related to Connectivism
I was asked: But i have some questions about my research. First i need ten-year findings of connectionim learning theory, second (Read more…)
Seven Real Signs of Surrender
Responding to a story in Inside Higher Ed called Signs of Surrender in Public Higher Ed. John Warner uses as a metaphor the ‘surrender’ of the press, as follows: The…
Presentation to UNCTAD’s Advisory Group on "Developing skills, knowledge and capacities through innovation: E-Learning, M-Learning, cloud-Learning"
Stephen Downes December 10, 2013 Access I’d like to begin with the issue of access. This is not where I usually begin a talk, because the main thing, I have…
Learning and Performance Support Systems
This post is to introduce you to our Learning and Performance Support Systems program, a new $19 million 5-year initiative at the National Research Council that I will be leading.…
Seminar on MOOCs, Lyon, France, Day 2
Again these talks are all in French so my note-taking may be inaccurate in places. Denis GilletEcole Polytechnique Federale de LausanneEnvironnements personnels d’apprentissage ou d’enseigments xMOOCs – the good –…
Notes from Centre Jacques Cartier seminar on MOOCs, Lyon, France
Summary notes from the conference in Lyons – most of it was in French (except the Tony Bates talk) so there may be some inaccuracies in my notes. John DanielMOOCs:…
MOOCs will ultimately play a transformational role
This is my contribution to the WISE online debate – you can find other contributions here. The democratization of the MOOC cannot be underestimated We have reached the point in…
MOOCs and Community Colleges
Interview with Patrick Flanagan, who was doing research for New Brunswick Community College (NBCC). Patrick Flanagan: OK, thanks very much. So the first thing on my list of questions I…
Strive Less. Share More.
I was asked by Jane Wilde: Would you be willing to give us a brief response to any one of the following questions. I know each is potentially big, and…