It was my great privilege late last week to speak with Stephen Downes, a long-time researcher with the National Research Council Canada’s Digital Technologies Research Centre in Ottawa!
Stephen is a substantive thinker and prolific writer on nearly any or all aspects of e-learning one can conceive of! He is among the preeminent philosophers of how human cognition and digital networks interact and perpetuate themselves across online and physical spaces.
Please click below to check out our convo!
Even if all you had was this audio, you’d still be quite well-served! #ednontech
Matt’s Notes
This is again where I place my usual mea culpa: I can’t think of much in terms of commentary to add to the chat with Stephen!
Perhaps beyond a few contextualizing remarks and resources, of course!
As mentioned in the recordings, I’ve been aware of Stephen and colleagues’ work since I began my doctoral work with the University of Calgary in 2012… so… 12 years, or roughly one quarter of my life! Pretty significant from that standpoint alone, really!
There is much to appreciate about any of Stephen’s significant and ongoing contributions to the practice, research, and outreach of e-learning on behalf of the government of Canada, notably, but not exclusively!
I simply lack the space here to try and do any kind of justice to explaining the concepts or associated practices going into connectivism… but, actually, I think we did a pretty good job of covering some of that during our chat!
I will end this limited commentary by pointing to two significant, informative, and… dare I say “fun”?… resources that Stephen updates on the regular! The OLDaily newsletter… and his primary website! See the screenshots below!
We are seriously grateful to Stephen for stopping by the podcast! And yourselves as well!
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