This episode of “Talking with machines” featured a conversation with Stephen Downes. I was joined by Tom Haymes and Bryan Alexander as we discussed “Augmented Info, Ethics, and the Duty of Care.” Stephen touches on his contributions to the origins of Massive Open Online Courses and Connectivism Theory (MOOCs and cMOOCs) before sharing his ideas on completely open courses like his “Ethics, analytics, and the duty of care” in 2021. He starts with the origins of higher education before discussing some possibilities for using the affordances of digital technologies to offer new ways of thinking about learning and teaching. We share the ways we are all using digital tools and then Stephen discusses his research on ethics and leads the conversation on ethics in educational institutions and the duty of care implied in our learning and teaching relationships.

Resources from Stephen Downes CList: Personal learning and communications application Online: https://www.downes.ca/CList/ Source code: https://github.com/Downes/CList Ethics, analytics, and the duty of care report by Stephen Downes 2023 https://www.downes.ca/files/docs/2023_10_23_-_Ethics_Analytics_and_the_Duty_of_Care_-_Published_English.pdf Ethics, analytics, and the duty of care cMOOC: https://ethics.mooc.ca/course_outline.htm

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