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Stephen Downes

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This post is a translation of a letter by a group of Italian teachers warning of the dangers of handing over the responsibility for online learning to private interests and "to push the government to finally invest in the creation of a public infrastructure based on free software for scientific communication and teaching." As I've learned though my own career, that's a hard sell, as there are commercial interests at stake who will not easily let go of such a lucrative market, and yet the dangers pointed to in the letter are real.

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