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Stephen Downes

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In today's OLDaily, I provide extensive coverage of the International Open Forum on E-Learning and Standards, the proceedings of which have just been posted online. In between hoping my translations from French are accurate and grumbling about the (ironic) use of PowerPoint and PDF throughout, I am caught between a mixture of hope - because of the many assertions of committment to an open and shared global learning culture - and concern - because of the top-down nature of the process, the creeping commercialism inherent in standardization, and the discordant notes sounded by some participants (and especially the World Bank). There's a lot of stuff here, and though most of it is a quick read, if you're pressed for time the "don't miss" items are Jake Knoppers' two summaries and Jin-Gon Shon's summary of the Korean experience.

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