Stephen Downes

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Stephen Downes (born April 6, 1959) is a designer and theorist in the fields of online learning and new media.

Born in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) Downes lived and worked across Canada before joining the National Research Council of Canada as a senior researcher in November 2001. Currently based in Moncton, New Brunswick, at the Institute for Information Technology's e-Learning Research Group, Stephen has become a leading voice in the areas of learning objects and metadata as well as the emerging fields of weblogs in education and content syndication. Downes is widely accepted as the central authority for online education in the edublogging community. He is also widely accepted as the originator of ELearning 2.0. Downes was the winner of the Individual Blog award in 2005 for his blog OLDaily (see below).

Contents 1 Projects 2 External citing of Stephen Downes 3 See also 4 External links 5 Publications

[edit] Projects

• Online Learning Daily - a daily roundup of news items relating to e-learning.

• EduRSS - a system that harvests RSS feeds relating to education and makes them available as topic-focussed second-order feeds.

[edit] External citing of Stephen Downes

As of the middle of August 2006 technorati indicates that 593 blogs were linking to the Downes website.

[edit] See also

• Edublog
• Elearning

[edit] External links

• Stephen Downes Website

[edit] Publications

• elearning 2.0
• Understanding PISA
• Educational Blogging
• From Classrooms to Learning Environments: A Midrange Projection of E-Learning Technologies
• RSS: Grassroots Support Leads to Mass Appeal
• Resource Profiles
• Editorial - The Rise of Learning Objects

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