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Half an Hour: The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On

This posting by Stephen Downes provides a useful summary of where we are at now and how we got here. He re-visits a previous article written in 1998, noting that many of his earlier predictions have been remarkably accurate. The main areas he discusses include:

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Does this say it all? Why do we undervalue education so much? Why are league tables, saving money and statistics more important than learning?
“Education, education, education” - 11 years of Labour and 11 years of Tory policy to show for it!
What a con!
This report was published on the BBC News website [...]

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