Code for Repression
Responding to James Morton: You say “Judges shouldn’t be making social policy.” I respond that the policy was already made by legislators, and that judges are merely enforcing it. The…
Stephen Downes
Education as Platform: The MOOC Experience and what we can do to make it better
Presented to EdgeX2012, Delhi, India, March 12, 2012. My name is Stephen Downes, I’m from Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. New Brunswick is a small province on the eastern side of…
The Centre Moves
The whole argument that the NDP should move to the centre ignores the fact that the centre moves. Responding to David W. Campbell I hear this ‘pragmatist centrist’ argument a…
The Senate
The purpose of the Senate is to To review and approve legislation passed by Parliament before sending it for execution by the Governor-General of Canada; to initiate non-financial legislation; to…
What a MOOC Does – #Change11
Clark Quinn is asking where the further developments in MOOCs will come from, suggesting “he courses really require effective self-learners”, and I see today that Tony Bates continues this line…
Knowledge, Learning and Community
Contribution to #Change11 online course, February 27. The intent of these short contributions to the #Change11 course is to allow guest speakers to summarize their sum contribution to the field…
The OEO Logo and CC
UNESCO recently launched a new OER logo. On 25/02/2012 9:19 PM, Cable Green wrote: UNESCO – please change the license from CC BY ND… to either CC BY … or…
Social Media: An Interview
I was asked to contribute my responses to interview questions on social media for a new journal called The Future of Learning and of course I was happy to send…
One of the Best
Gary Edmund Carter (April 8, 1954 – February 16, 2012) (nickname “The Kid”) was an American former Major League Baseball catcher. During a 19-year baseball career, mostly with the Montreal…
E-Learning: Générations
(English version) Ces dernières années, j’ai travaillé sur deux grandsconcepts: d’abord, la théorie de l’apprentissage en ligne connectivist, quiconsidère l’apprentissage comme un processus de réseau et, deuxièmement, lemassif cours ouverts…
E-Learning Generations
(version française) In recent years I have been working on two major concepts:first, the connectivist theory of online learning, which views learning as anetwork process; and second, the massive open…
Passwords on gRSShopper
Last night with all the indignation of the morally righteous someone wrote to me and demanded that I do exactly what they say or they would blog about how awful…
Advice to Teachers on Online Learning
Here are the answers to your questions: The EdgeX website says this on your page”This to me is a society where knowledge and learning are public goods,freely created and shared,…