Boxing gRSShopper
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…
Stephen Downes
Wait, Why Did He Pick That?
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…
Feedback to Feedly
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+…
Being There: What Presence Means in a Digital World.
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…
Personal Learning: Taking Ownership of Learning Online: Part One
Note: this is an unedited audio transcript generated by the Google sound recorder app on my Pixel 4. In the future I may edit it (or if you want to,…
My Top Personal Learning Tools 2020
Jane Hart has issued her annual call for our top ten e-learning tools, and here’s mine. I’ve named my list ‘personal learning tools’ because I think of learning as an…
How to Help Students Succeed by Taking Ownership of Their Learning Online Through Personal Learning
This is an unedited transcript created by the Google Sound Recording on the Pixel 4 (the main reason I bought this phone in fact) of the webinar I gave July…
Responses to Pew on the Future and Ethics in AI
If you expect change, what do you think the “new normal” will be for the average person in 2025? What will have changed most? What will not change much at…
Ethical Codes and Learning Analytics
PDF versions of the Full Paper and References. Presented at EDEN 2020 – Presentation page. Abstract The growth and development of learning analytics has placed a range of new capacities…
Where Do Blog Post Ideas Come From?
Someone asked me by email, do you have any advice on how to come up with blog post ideas? I recently launched an informational website, so far I have around…
On Pandemic Politics, Pedagogies and Practices
“We have no wish to denigrate or criticize online distance education,” write the authors of Pandemic politics, pedagogies and practice, “but rather, the aim of this brief editorial is twofold:…
Bruno de Pierro Interview
Note: I received a request for responses to some questions in my email. The questions were quite involved and it would take me quite a while to type answers. But…
Questions on Assessment
Responding to an enquiry about assessment. – what about the practical work that must be done in the laboratory? It depends on the laboratory, but mostly, students will not be…
The Problem With ‘A National Effort in Online Education’
Alex Usher points out quite correctly that universities will need to be online by the fall. We’re not likely to be out of the Covid woods by then, and in-person…
What Is Online Learning?
I have a lot of sympathy for those working in educational technology positions at schools and universities today because they have been thrust into the unenviable position of converting a…
My 25 Years of Ed Tech
Martin Weller has released his book 25 Years of Ed Tech today. It’s a nice read; you are encouraged to check it out. But I have to confess, on having…
How to Use Fastpages (2)
This is part two of a series. If you haven’t read part one, you should do so now. Click here to read part one. OK them welcome back. Let’s begin…
How to Use Fastpages
This is a really interesting project that allows you to write posts in markdown, MS Word or Jupyter notebooks and publish them in a blog using GitHub pages. No website…
The Sustainable Development Goals and Me – Part One
With even the World Economic Forum embracing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) I thought it would be an appropriate time to check my own activity and see whether…
How to Learn Using Technology
Learning with technology is different from learning with textbooks or learning with classroom instruction. In these, the focus is on understanding and remembering. It is content based. The learning objective…