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Welcome to Stephen's Web ~ Stephen's Web
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The Role of Educator in a PLE World
Stephen Downes, November 17, 2010,
EC I 831: Social Media amp; Open Education, Online, via Elluminate
In this presentation I argue that the role of the educator has become unbundled and is now a wide variety of different roles, usually performed by different people.
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Welcome to Stephen's Web
Stephen Downes is a senior researcher for Canada's National Research Council and a leading proponent of the use of online media and services in education. As the author of the widely-read OLDaily online newsletter, Downes has earned international recognition for his leading-edge work in the field of online learning. He developed some of Canada's first online courses at Assiniboine Community College in Brandon, Manitoba. He also built a learning management system from scratch and authored the now-classic "The Future of Online Learning".
At the University of Alberta he built a learning and research portal for the municipal sector in that province, Munimall, and another for the Engineering and Geology sector, PEGGAsus. He also pioneered the development of learning objects and was one of the first adopters and developers of RSS content syndication in education. Downes introduced the concept of e-learning 2.0 and with George Siemens developed and defined the concept of Connectivism, using the social network approach to deliver open online courses to three thousand participants over two years.
Downes has been offering courses in learning, logic, philosophy both online and off since 1987, has 135 articles published in books, magazines and academic journals, and has presented his unique perspective on learning and technology more than 250 times to audiences in 17 countries on five continents. He is a habitual photographer, plays darts for money, and can be found at home with his wife Andrea and four cats in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Stephen's Web and OLDaily:  http://www.downes.ca
Half an Hour Blog: http://halfanhour.blogspot.com
Huffington Post Blog: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-downes
All publications: http://www.downes.ca/me/presentations.htm
All presentations: http://www.downes.ca/me/presentations.htm
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Videos: http://www.downes.ca/me/videos.htm
RSS Feed: http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.xml
Podcast: http://www.downes.ca/news/audio.xml
Key Articles
The Future of Online Learning: http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/fall1998/downes13.html
Learning Objects: Resources for Distance Education Worldwide: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/32/378
Resource Profiles: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/2004/5/
e-Learning 2.0: http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?article=29-1§ion=articles
Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge: http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/projects.php?idp=614
Things You Really Need to learn: http://www.downes.ca/post/38502
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Google: http://www.google.com/profiles/sfdownes
Blip.tv: http://downes.blip.tv/
Contact: stephen@downes.ca  Stephen.Downes@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Skype: Downes spanp
I want and visualize and aspire toward a system of society and learning where each
person is able to rise to his or her fullest potential without social or financial
encumberance, where they may express themselves fully and without reservation through art,
writing, athletics, invention, or even through their avocations or lifestyle.
Where they are able to form networks of meaningful and rewarding relationships with their
peers, with people who share the same interests or hobbies, the same political or
religious affiliations - or different interests or affiliations, as the case may be.
This to me is a society where knowledge and learning are public goods, freely
created and shared, not hoarded or withheld in order to extract wealth or influence.
This is what I aspire toward, this is what I work toward.
Canadians who gave their lives in service in Afghanistan
Hundreds of my IAAF Track amp; Field Photos from Moncton 2010
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Contact: stephen@downes.ca
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