Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen Downes

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian researcher Stephen Downes.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Stephen Downes is a Canadian philosopher and commentator in the fields of online learning and new media. He has explored and promoted the educational use of computer and online technologies since 1995. He gave the 2004 Buntine Oration and was a presenter at the February 2007 Online Connectivism Conference. In 2008, Downes and George Siemens designed and taught an online, open course reported as a "landmark in the small but growing push toward 'open teaching'" - widely considered the first massive open online course (MOOC).

Canadian - Researcher | Born: April 6, 1959

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This is the most important principle of reading on the Internet: You must determine for yourself whether or not something is true.

Stephen Downes

We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.

Stephen Downes

E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea---the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven---to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It's the core to numerous business plans and a service offered by most colleges and universities. And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it's changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0.

Stephen Downes

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen Downes

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