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Stephen Downes

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Mike Masnick writes, "I cannot fathom how anyone can possibly get all that excited about joining yet another centralized social media site. Perhaps I'™m biased (note: I am biased) because it was my frustration with the problems of these big, centralized social media services that made me write my Protocols, Not Platforms paper a few years ago." The same considerations apply to educational services. The LMS and LXP are at least a bit distributed in that each institution gets its own installation, but from the perspective of the student they're no better, and no less capricious, than Facebook or Twitter. We should be planning a Fediverse of Learning (FoL). Why aren't we?

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