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Stephen Downes

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Martin Weller is disappointed by "the resurrection of so many bad takes on online learning that I had encountered in 1999 and thought we had moved on from." These bad takes started almost immediately following the online pivot, a lot of them from online educators (I noted it at the time and got dumped on by a number of people, including Weller). Anyhow, we both agree with this: "The least interesting thing you can do is replicate the not very effective model of the lecture. We had these discussions back in 1999, and people explored problem based learning, constructivism, collaborative learning, and then later connectivism and flipped learning." You know... online learning should be interesting, dynamic, and fun...

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