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Stephen Downes

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I once wrote a paper called Synchronous Learning on the Web in which I observed that "the less you want to be at the class or the meeting, the more you want to use some form of conferencing, because it's easier and - especially if you're online - you can do other things at the same time." As this article makes clear, I am not the only person to have reached that conclusion. "90 percent of audio conferencers multitask by doing things other than paying full attention to meeting content." What surprises me most, I think, is that ten percent of attendees are paying full attention.

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