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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

I'm fully on board with this vision of cloud technologies for education. Readers know I've been writing about it for some time (and taken my lumps getting it off the ground). It's a "new world of infrastructure that allows us to run our own federated social networks akin to Twitter or Facebook with the click of a button, there is some degree of magic to that," writes Groom. Also take note of his criticism of the alternative version of 'open' offered by Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE), "the idea of collecting student data en masse and ensuring a more invasive and surveillance-ready series of tool integrations... none of these free-flowing efficiencies have resulted in anything resembling better experiences for students, not to say anything about laughable metric of 'success' in this context. Beware the wolf in open sheep's clothing."

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