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Friday, August 16, 2002
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/stephendownes.htm elearnspace Interviews Stephen Downes of Stephen's Web & OLDaily elearnspace: How did you become involved in online learning? Downes: My educational background is in philosophy. I studied at University of Calgary, completing my Masters, and then studied for my Phd (all but dissertation) at U of Alberta. While at U of Alberta, I was hired to teach philosophy at U of Athabasca. This was my introduction to distance education. In 1994 I started as a Distance Education and New Instructional Media Specialist at Assiniboine Community College. I did this for 4 ½ years. I then went to U of Alberta as an Information Architect to build an online learning resource for the municipal sector in Alberta called Munimall. I completed this project in fall 2001, and obtained current position as a Researcher at National Research Council. I research learning objects, learning objects metadata, standards, repositories, online learning communities, knowledge management. It’s a dream job; what I’m doing now is what I’d be doing any ways, except I get paid for it....
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