Connectivism
Unedited AI-generated transcript of a talk given online April 27, 2021. So, hello everyone. As was stated in the introduction, my name is Stephen Downes and it’s a pleasure to…
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Supporting Everyday Learning
This is an unedited transcript of my workshop. There we go, so now I’m recording. That would have been interesting so welcome to the session called supporting everyday learning you…
Sympathy for the Devil: Criticizing and Criticalizing the Media
These are notes taken during Shirley Steinberg’s CNIE keynote, Sympathy for the Devil: Criticizing and Criticalizing the Media: Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil – accomplishments of the devil,…
What Does it Mean to Enrol in a Course?
I guess the answer seems pretty obvious: you provide your personal contact information, maybe pay some money, maybe show you’ve satisfied a prerequisite, such as admission to an institution, and…
Change in Education and What Needs to be Done
Published as Change in Education and What Needs to be Done, 15 pages, 2020, Maysan Center for Future Studies. In recent months we as a global community have experienced a…
More Open
“We should pause and ask the question,” says David Wiley, “is more open always better?” The answer, of course, is “it depends”. I don’t keep my house open for just…
OER and User Pay
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…
A Message About Learning from the Shop Floor
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…
On the Indieweb
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…
Remote Comments
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…
Upcoming Webinars
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…
Institutional Support for Personal Learning
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…
What’s Next for MOOCs
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…
A Personal Learning Platform
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…
Lessons From the Pandemic
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…
Being Online: Facing the Digital Future Together
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…
Reflections on the Futures of Education
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…
Reimaging Open Educational Resources
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…
12 Degrees of Freedom
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…
Open Learning, Open Networks – Online Learning in 2020
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…