STEPHEN DOWNES

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

Born in Montreal, 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 ELearning2.0. Downes was the winner of the Individual Blog Award in 2005 for his blog OLDaily.

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• Page name: Stephen Downes
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• Date of last revision: 19 September 2006 12:00 UTC
• Date retrieved: 7 November 2006 10:48 UTC
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