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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
James Farmer notes that an article such as this that points out the downside of educational blogging "is as valuable as 10 papers on why blogging is great." As with any other medium, student "more or less said that they needed the direction of a teacherly assignment to write, and they weren't going to 'just want to write' in a blog space." For this and other reasons, the blogs simply did not generate the community discussion the instructor had hoped. Readers may enjoy some of the other article in Kairos as well.

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