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Stephen Downes

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For those of you who were at my seminar in Fredericton yesterday, this is the sort of thing (in part) that I'm talking about. During the seminar, I said that we need to stop thinking about online courses as publications and start looking at them as communication. What does that mean? Well, like this: "Web-based publications, from your competitor Salon.com to The New York Times Magazine, capitalize on this tendency in the simplest of ways: breaking up articles onto multiple, cross-linked pages.CRLFMore sophisticated methods of engaging Web users include one you mentioned: having a journalist keep a kind of professional journal that elicits the story as it's reported, in small chunks day-by-day, or your nifty trick of using the 'voice of e-mail.'"CRLF

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