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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Like the short item I posted to DEOS a couple of weeks ago and expanded in a number of posts copied (I think) to the Global Learn Day List, this paper discusses the concept of self organizing social systems in online learning. "We believe that the most significant bandwidth problem in online learning has nothing to do with pushing data through pipes. The idea of 'teacher bandwidth' analogizes students to data, and teachers to pipes, and formulates the problem thus: how many students can a teacher support in an online learning environment?" PDF format.

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