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Stephen Downes

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I'm not sure how long this SlideShare version of the paper, but you should download it while you can;  Microsoft will ak you login to download, but the ResearchGate download works). Here's the paywall version ($US43/hour, if you can believe it, and they wonder why people hate publishers). Here's the gist: a lot of people are promoting evidence-based education, which is drawn from evidence-based medicine, but they aren't as quick to took at the problems being found in evidence-based medicine. "There is no pure, superior version of scientifically produced truth in the form of the RCT or meta-analysis, as medicine well knows.  EBM has not yet fixed the problems it set out to solve... There is no excuse for education to continue to pretend that this superior truth, and a matching, neat, statistical evidence-based solution exist."

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