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Stephen Downes

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Will Pollard in Hello Spiders comments "previously I do not think the print Guardian would have published this" because of the print journalists' disinterest in online learning. But now, as Diane Laurillard is quoted as saying, "It took a global pandemic to drive home what we've been saying for 30 years." Which, of course, is quite true. Now we're beginning to hear the messages that were current in our field in, I suppose, 2021. Like this: "This is a time for schools and systems to reimagine education without schooling or classrooms," says Professor Yong Zhao. Or this: "Professor Manu Kapur of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich argues that students learn better from their own or others' failed attempts to solve a problem."

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