031 Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes is Senior Research Officer with the National Research Council in Canada. He has a deep history in online education and his writings, regular newsletter (the OLDaily) and international keynotes mean it's likely he's already influenced your practice and thinking.

Interview: https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/031-Stephen-Downes-Final.mp3 | recorded September 2019

Stephen's profile: https://www.downes.ca/

Free to access resources:

• All publications: https://www.downes.ca/publications.htm
• All presentations: https://www.downes.ca/presentations.htm

Nominated papers:

• Downes, S. (2019). A Look at the Future of Open Educational Resources. International Journal of Open Educational Resources 1(2). https://www.ijoer.org/a-look-at-the-future-of-open-educational-resources/
• Downes, S. (2019). A Distributed Content Addressable Network for Open Educational Resources. Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age CELDA 2019. Full text: https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=70094 | Event overview: https://www.celda-conf.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Program_CELDA_2019.pdf
• Downes, S. (2018). Online Learning and MOOCs: Visions and Pathways. China International Distance Education Conference, Beijing, China. Full text: https://www.downes.ca/files/Visions%20and%20Pathways.pdf | Web version: https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=69604

Nominated presentations:

• Downes, S. (2019). Personal Learning Versus Personalized Learning - Making Lifelong Learning Happen. Online Learning 2019, Toronto, Ontario (Lecture). Audio and video: https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?presentation=511
• Downes, S. (2019). The Third Wave: the Next Generation of Distributed Learning Technology. Canadian Network for Innovation in Education, Vancouver, British Columbia (Lecture). Audio and video: https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?presentation=505

Twitter: @Downes

Mastodon: @[email protected]

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