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Stephen Downes

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Most of this makes decent sense, especially as directed toward a global audience, even if the advice is pretty basic. The main lesson (which shows up in several of the takeaways) is that learners need support; this is most vividly evident in the observation that hardware dumping does not work. As well, working with what you have is better on balance; "spend more time considering what digital infrastructure already exists, and how it could be put to better use" and use "content that already exists, and curating it around learning objectives." It wouldn't be a World Bank publication without an emphasis on measuring everything, but I would caution that organizations measure only as much as needed to identify needs, resources and capabilities. Because it's not measurement that produces the outcome, it's the learning program itself.

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