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Stephen Downes

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The BERA Blog has published a series of posts on playfulness in academia. As with any such series, the results are a mixed bag. I resisted the tendency on the part of some academics to try to measure or evaluate the impact of play on learning, or to analyze it as a mechanism to promote cooperation over competition. It doesn't matter whether play is utilitarian. Academic work begins as play, and the rest is the framework that makes the play possible; remove the play and I think you'd find you aren't getting any of the benefit you're paying for, even if you can't (and shouldn't) measure the benefit of play directly.

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