Stephen Downes is full of good ideas. i’ve followed his thoughts for many years now.
A Canadian education researcher, Stephen is an incredibly articulate and rigorous thinker who is definitely worth listening to, and i believe he listens to others really well too. In his first Huffington Post article, he gives an overview of the PLENK massive online course, and his perspective on connected and networked learning. (PLENK = Personal Learning Environments, Networks and Knowledge.)
“That is not to advocate throwing learners off the bus to fend for themselves. It is hard to be self-reliant,
Hi Michael, I love your Blog page – so beautifully presented!
I am delighted to see this reference to one our great thought leaders on elearning, Stephen Downes has a particularly ‘pithy’ way of presenting.
I think Stephen must have ‘borrowed’ the term ‘taking charge of learning’ from us. That’s cool. CC
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Thanks so much Coach Carole for your kind comments.
Yes i’ve just updated the theme – needed a change. (The old theme had 3 columns so i had to adjust a bit.)
You’re right, Stephen is very good at speaking concisely and to the point (and i’ve just expanded your ‘pithy’ to 5 words).
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