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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

While we are now hearing from all sides how important it is to work and learn in person, we are also learning just how much productivity improved over the period where we all worked from home. "What's striking about these dramatic advances is that they largely entailed people collaborating remotely, leveraging technology in different ways, and being bolder with innovation, automation, and digitization than ever before." That's exactly what wasn't done in education, for the most part. Interestingly, by not emulating traditional methods of social interaction, organizations "widened the pool of minds that could come up with and share good ideas." Online learning widens that pool to include those that feel unsafe, fear the police, need transportation, have disabilities, and more.

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