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Stephen Downes

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"Technologies which are more cutting-edge and more expensive are not necessarily better suited for (open and distance) education," writes Junhong Xiao.  "As the study by David Lim (2024) and colleagues shows, 'students' lack of privileged access to frontier technologies is no barrier to learning success' because 'learning outcomes have causality beyond technological determinism.'" Some access, in whatever form, is better than no access. The people focused on 'omproving quality' often miss that.

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