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Stephen Downes

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Good post by David Kernohan analyzing the misrepresentation of MOOCs by media. He writes, ""Open" was the first organ that we lost. From a nuanced and specific position in the world of the open educational resource, it is a word reduced to a synonym for two senses of free – free of cost (free as in beer) and free of prerequisites (free as in ride). Freedom, of course, is another word for nothing left to lose – yet somehow we have managed to lose it anyway."

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