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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This is why we should not employ a 'hybrid' system of learning where some people are in the classroom and some people are at a distance, either online or connected by video. I experienced this personally while working at a 'remote' location in New Brunswick connecting to meetings based in Ottawa. It's like you're not there during the meeting. Moreover, the meeting continues informally after the connection is closed. People who are proximate to decision-makers have an outsized influence on them. Their interests automatically become more significant, their requests more urgent. "If you have two playing fields to administer, they are inequitable by design."

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