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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

The diagram is pretty cool, even if you can't read any of the text. The main point of the post is to refute the assertion that "Knowledge is best taught in a linear fashion." It proposes "a new technology could help us achieve a paradigm shift in education where students can learn complex topics independently and where teachers raise their teaching quality without burning out." Fair enough, and I'm on board with the thinking, but as I've said frequently, "education is not a search problem". Changing the way we select learning content fixes only one of many issues in online learning. Via Reddit.

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