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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
If you are wondering where I was (and hence, where OLDaily was) yesterday, I was at Athabasca University's Edmonton office delivering this talk to a number of combative distance learning instructors, designers and administration. My point, in a nutshell: "Objects are best described using multiple vocabularies. There is no way to determine which vocabulary will be relevant to either an author or a user of a given objects. Trying to stipulate a canonical vocabulary a priori needlessly reduces the effectiveness of a system of communication." The PowerPoint version is also available.

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