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What is Stephen Downes primary job? He describes himself as a senior researcher and makes bold claims of pioneering and important work in the field of e-learnin
by WhitneyLand 10y ago
What is Stephen Downes primary job? He describes himself as a senior researcher and makes bold claims of pioneering and important work in the field of e-learning.
Maybe I'm missing his peer reviewed research, I don't see any. I read one unreviewed paper on "Learning Objects" and it had so much fluff it bordered on crankery.
Best I can tell he writes blog posts and articles for web sites.
- sopooneo 10y agoYour assessment of Downes may be correct. But I can tell you, that even in actual academic journals, "education research" is a level of self-sustaining garbage like nothing else you have ever encountered. I say this as someone that completed a MEd among some others that went on to be absolute magicians in the classroom. But 90% of the reading assigned for that degree could have passed for parody.
- WhitneyLand 10y agoWow, I had no idea thanks for explaining that.
- dredmorbius 10y agohttp://www.downes.ca/me/index.htm http://www.downes.ca/me/index.htm
- MistahKoala 10y agoHe's a somewhat well-known academic in the field of edtech - 'true' MOOCs in particular. That's not a defence of him, by the way.