Tag Archives: Stephen Downes

Teaching in a Pandemic: We Have Solved This Problem Before

Posted on June 30, 2020 by geoffcain

The situation here is familiar: circumstances demand that we change how we deliver teaching and learning. We need to employ different teaching modalities, and we need to quickly prepare students for that. Notice I didn’t say “new” modalities. We are … Continue reading →

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The Creative Commons Certificate Course and Open

Posted on April 25, 2019 by geoffcain

Stephen Downes posted some of his discussion about the Creative Commons Certificate Course from various corners of the web. I wanted to share the response I posted to his blog because, as he mentioned, someone wasn’t sure where his comment … Continue reading →

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Week 0.5 – eLearning 3.0

Posted on October 29, 2018 by geoffcain

I just finished watching Stephen Downes’ talk on Web3 technologies and their implications for learning. I am very interested in what Stephen had to say about technologies being used to build consensus and decision making. I think a shared, distributed … Continue reading →

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Week 0: Seimens and Downes on AI

Posted on October 25, 2018 by geoffcain

It was good to see Stephen Downes and George Siemens sitting down together and talking again for our Education 3.0 MOOC. It felt just like old times (CCK08, CCK11, etc.). I can’t really say what they do for one another … Continue reading →

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AI Ain’t What It Used to Be

Posted on June 6, 2018 by geoffcain

Stephen Downes posted a link to the Metafilter blog where a discussion that begins thus is taking place: Uber’s Self-Driving Car Didn’t Malfunction, It Was Just Bad. There were no software glitches or sensor breakdowns that led to a fatal … Continue reading →

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Impacts of OER in Community College

Posted on November 4, 2017 by geoffcain

I appreciate Stephen Downes take on OER – that there should be “no significant difference” between classes taught with OER or commercial text as far as outcomes go. I got into education to see that happen. The impact that I … Continue reading →

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Connectivism, Neuroscience, and Education

Posted on April 11, 2014 by geoffcain

I have never been comfortable with proclamations by educators or scientists (and yes, there is a difference) about how the brain works. The logical fallacy goes something like this: “we have isolated a mechanism in the brain, learning takes place … Continue reading →

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Some Notes on Connectivism and Peer Review

Posted on November 24, 2013 by geoffcain

A social network diagram (Wikipedia) I have been looking at social constructivism and the social generation of knowledge over the last week. I am interested in this line of thought because I feel that for us to really get a … Continue reading →

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MOOCs and Student Support

Posted on September 13, 2013 by geoffcain

Internet Penetration (% Population). Red indicates no statistics available. (Wikipedia) I read an article this week that I found via Stephen Downe’s blog that is from the eLearning Africa News Portal called “The Underlying Inequality of MOOCs” by Alicia Mitchell. … Continue reading →

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MOOCs: Disruption is the Mother of Invention

Posted on June 14, 2013 by geoffcain

Stephen Downes There is an article in the Boston Review by Thomas Leddy called “Are MOOCs Good for Students?” In this article Leddy claims that “MOOCs pose a great threat to the most important value of higher education: ‘literacy.’ By … Continue reading →

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