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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Dec 31, 2016
The Downes Prize 2016
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Dec 31, 2016
Every year at this time I award the Downes Prize to the
most-read post of those I've posted some time in the
previous 365 days. This year that means any one of 1288
total posts from hundreds of authors around the world. The
award is intended to be an objective measure, not based on
popularity contests, campaigns, or any other such thing,
but reflective of actual interest in the item on the part
of OLDaily readers..
Without further ado,
This year's Downes Prize is awarded to:
Michael Caulfield, for New Directions in Open Education
../post/65915/rd published in Hapgood, Oct 10, 2016
In 2016 we stopped talking about the technology for a bit
and started talking about the implications of it. It was a
good conversation to have. It relates to many of the themes
of the year - the commercialization of MOOCs, the rise of
fake news, life and living in the cloud, and the the
meaning of learning and our place in it. Caulfield's
article, a keynote given at Metropolitan State’s TLTS
conference in Denver, CO., touches all of these things and
more.
In the process, Caulfield delivers an incisive look not
only at the future of open learning, but also of the nature
and objectives of open learning itself. Open learning is
not just the redistribution of a Yale lesson or a Stanford
MOOC. But why not? It's based in "the human core of open,"
he explains. It's based in the students' individual needs
for belonging, relevance, and diversity of experience.
Replaying an open lecture doesn't contribute to these: in
fact, in some ways, it undermines them. Through concepts
such as loosely coupled classrooms and choral explanations,
Caulfield positions open educational resources not only as
enabling access to learning, but also enabling a new
pedagogy.
This is a genuine and deep contribution to the field,
well-recognized by readers of OLDaily, and hence,
recognized with this year's Downes Prize.
Honourable Mentions:
The empty brain ../post/65346/rd - Robert Epstein
../author/14284, Aeon ../feed/222, May 18, 2016
Teaching and Learning in a “Post-truth” World
../post/66021/rd - Andrew Campbell ../author/15580,
Canadian Education Association (CEA) ../feed/7225, Nov 03,
2016
6 Reasons Platforms Fail ../post/65175/rd - Marshall W.
Van AlstyneGeoffrey G. ParkerSangeet Paul Choudary
../author/14045, Harvard Business Review ../feed/100, Mar
31, 2016
Theories for Learning with Emerging Technologies
../post/65421/rd - Terry Anderson ../author/1003, Emergence
../feed/7074, Innovation in Digital Learning: Foundations
../feed/7075, Jun 06, 2016
How Google And Others Are Plotting The Revenge Of The Web
App ../post/65800/rd - Jared Newman ../author/8775, Fast
Company ../feed/419, Sept 10, 2016
So You Want to Learn Physics... ../post/65940/rd - Susan J.
Fowler ../author/15423, Oct 17, 2016
Sci-Hub, LibGen, and Total Information Awareness
../post/65147/rd - Eric Hellman ../author/7727, Go To
Hellman ../feed/290, Mar 21, 2016
The jobs of the future – and two skills you need to
get them ../post/65803/rd - Simon Torkington
../author/15163, World Economic Forum ../feed/7168, Sept
11, 2016
Platform Cooperativism: Challenging the Corporate Sharing
Economy ../post/64905/rd - Trebor Scholz ../author/6391,
Rosa Luxemberg Siftung ../feed/822, Jan 17, 2016
Amazon Education to Launch New Website for Open Education
Resources ../post/65058/rd - Michele Molnar
../author/10036, Ed Week ../feed/5220, Feb 15, 2016
How to Learn Effectively in Medical School: Test Yourself,
Learn Actively, and Repeat in Intervals ../post/64915/rd -
Marc Augustin ../author/12317, PubMed Central | Yale
Journal of Biology and Medicine ../feed/825, Jan 20,
2016
A Genuine Science Of Learning ../post/66215/rd - Keith
Devlin ../author/14577, Edge ../feed/25, Dec 29, 2016
Meet the Robin Hood of Science ../post/65045/rd - Simon
Oxenham ../author/11288, CC BY ../feed/57, Feb 11, 2016
Micro-Barriers Loom Large for First-Generation Students
../post/66006/rd - Eric Johnson ../author/14483, Chronicle
of Higher Education ../feed/38, Nov 01, 2016
Previous Winners
In 2015 ../post/64839, the Downes Prize was awarded to Alaa
A. AlDahdouh, António J. Osório and Susana
Caires for Understanding knowledge network, learning and
connectivism ../post/64726 published in theInternational
Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning.
In 2014 ../post/63229, the Downes Prize was awarded to Matt
Bower, Gregor Kennedy, Barney Dalgarno, Mark J. W. Lee,
Jacqueline Kenney for Blended Synchronous Learning Handbook
../post/62596
In 2013 ../post/61595, the Downes Prize was awarded to Tony
Bates for Discussing design models for hybrid/blended
learning and the impact on the campus ../post/60858
In 2012 ../post/59715, the prize was awarded to Clayton R.
Wright, for his series of posts annotating educational
technology conferences
../post/page.cgi?author=Clayton%20R.%20Wright.
In 2011 ../post/56919, the prize was awarded to
the Consortium for School Networking for
Acceptable Use Policies in Web 2.0 & Mobile Era
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In 2010 ../archive/10/12_31_news_OLDaily.htm, the prize was
awarded to JISC for Effective Assessment in a Digital Age
../post/53747.
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