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.
Projects that Downes initiated and is well known for:
- 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.
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