Decentralising online learning

A "technical presentation that is structured and designed for a non-technical audience" by Stephen Downes. With the Twitter lifeboats again being deployed, this is a timely look at how federated and decentralised technologies can be used for removing the silos from online learning.

Title slide reading Open Learning in the Fediverse, Stephen Downes, 18 October 2022, over a photo of an old barn behind a field of dry maize

As a new generation of digital technologies evolves we are awash in new terms and concepts: the metaverse, the fediverse, blockchain, web3, acitivitypub, and more. This presentation untangles these concepts and presents them from the perspective of their impact on open learning.

Source: Open Learning in the Fediverse | Stephen Downes