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Tony Bates comments on the most recent report from OECD on the state of education as impacted by the pandemic. The most telling remark in his short synopsis...

A debate has erupted this week at the software company Basecamp after its directors announced an end to social and political discussion in the workplace. The move is viewed by many as ironic as Basecamp was previously known for an enlightened workplace culture and its directors actually published several books on the subject. This serves to "paint a portrait of a company...

This is a five-part series on structuring online discussions. Parts of it feel very dated - for example, the bit where students say "the lack of emotional cues about the author of a written post makes it difficult to properly formulate a response." That sounds more like...

This is a conversation with a working group based in Kazakhstan studying the future of the institution, both in the short term, to respond to the post-pandemic environment, and also in the longer term, considering what the ideal learning environment might look like. No slides. For audio and video please see https://www.downes.ca/presentation/548

I think that the intent behind this article is to note that Ian Linkletter is facing...

The number of people lining up for the opportunity to pay for podcasts is exactly zero. But publishers are going to inflict on them anyways, because, after all, they have to pay back all the money they borrowed in order to acquire most of the podcasting services out there. This is exactly...

What I wonder most of all on reading this post is how much executive education is really as broken as suggested here. Sure, as the article says, an academic classes "affords very little opportunity for executives to get out there, roll up their sleeves and put what they...