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Stephen Downes

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This short paper characterizes online education as an academic discipline as "a pan-disciplinary set of meta-skills and knowledge beyond subject matter expertise, an auxiliary discipline now needed by educators and researchers in most fields worldwide." It draws on the author's experience in the "online education field for over 25 years as an academic in Japan." Note that this paper is in Academia.com, which really wants you to login, but can be viewed without login simply by scrolling down through the page (note the faint grey text 'Read Paper'. Image: OpenLearn.

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