Stephen Downes Quotes & Sayings

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

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