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Stephen Downes

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I won't linger on this, but want to cite it as evidence that e-learning can effect the emotions. Janet Clarey considers the criticism that online media is making us insensitive. "This made me think of a highly emotional e-learning course about palliative care," she writes. But you have to design it with care. "Content that needs to tap compassion may need to be designed without rapid digital exchanges common to social media." Which means - conversely - that if we're becoming indifferent about life and death, it is because we are designing this indifference in to our media.

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