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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

The Americal Asssociation of University Professors has published an interesting, if possibly controversial, statement in defense of knowledge (or, as I would cat it after reading it, in defense of experts). But as Dave Cormier says in a recent podcast, universities are not the exclusive domain of knowledge any more, and for (almost) any fact, you can find someone equally educated who will disagree with that fact. It's not 'anything goes' - but it's also not 'universities are the one true guardian of knowledge'.

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