Presentation
The Lecture Must Stand
Stephen Downes, April 14, 2011, Follow the Sun - Learning Futures Festival Online 2011, Seattle, via Adobe Connect

My side of a debate versus Donald Clark and James Morrison - their proposition was that the lecture must die, and I argued that the lecture must stand. For the web pages with the full videos, see the web presentation actually used during the talk.

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Presentation
exploring the o-rizon of online learning
Stephen Downes, April 14, 2011, Professional Development Forum - Exploring the e-Horizons of Open Leanring, Western Australia, via Elluminate

In this talk I look at the history of open learning and open educational resources and trace through the three (or four) states of openness in learning.

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Go Open Access - I. What is Open Access?
Various Authors, Youtube, April 14, 2011.

Paul Vierkant writes, by email, "to promote understanding of Open Access, the information platform open-access.netinitiated a series of short films. In a charming and humorous manner, the value chain of academic publishing and the principles of Open Access are explained. The films (sponsored by the German Research Foundation, DFG) are in German and in English and will be gradually published on open-access.net's YouTube channel."

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