Découvrir l'apprentissage mixte et le nouveau DU (diplôme universitaire) sur la FORMATION DIGITALE de l'université de Rennes 1 (inscriptions à partir de mai 2015) : http://cofordi.fr/

La formation est un dispositif réellement multimodal qui permettra d’expérimenter comme apprenant les modalités que vous prescrirez comme concepteur :
- des ressources en ligne multimédia interactives
- des activités en ligne (individuelles et collectives)
- 10 classes virtuelles
- un regroupement

Cette formation s’adresse aux professionnels motivés:
- Professionnel de la formation quel que soit le domaine
- Expérience professionnelle de 5 ans minimum.

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New investments in research and students announced in today’s federal budget will make Canada more innovative and prosperous, say the country’s universities. The federal government’s funding of $1.33 billion over six years to the Canada Foundation for Innovation ensures that Canada’s globally competitive international research platform will continue to be a world leader for discovery. Today’s investments will help build leading-edge research infrastructure to support top talent – faculty and students at universities across the country. More...

By Paul Davidson. The global economic uncertainty of recent years has led countries to focus increasingly on innovation and the commercialization of research. That’s understandable, given the undisputed link between innovation and prosperity. But this shift need not lead to a division – in institutional and funding priorities – between basic and applied research. Applied discoveries begin with basic research, and ensuring discovery research is robust, wide-ranging and unfettered is essential to innovation success. More...

By Andrew Parkin. This op-ed was originally published on the Academica Group’s Rethinking Higher Ed Forum on April 15, 2015 
Are we pushing too many young people to go to university?
A new paper by Ken Coates argues that a preoccupation with universities and a tendency to overlook the more job-relevant training offered by colleges and polytechnic institutes is leading too many young Canadians astray. The paper, published at the end of March by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives as part of its “Jobs and Skills for the 21st Century” initiative, grabbed headlines because of its suggestion that we should cut university spaces by 25 to 30 percent and refocus our attention on producing more career-ready college graduates. More...

14-15 October 2015 - with workshops tentatively proposed for 13 and 16 October 2015 Conference on Higher Education Futures, Singapore
This Conference is an initiative of the OECD in  partnership with the Ministry of Education, Singapore.
The official conference website and registration page will be launched in May 2015. Please indicate your potential interest to attend by completing the online form and you will receive immediate notification once the official conference registration site goes live.
Draft conference programme and description.
While higher education and research are widely recognized as crucial for social and economic development, those responsible for planning and delivering these vital services will face formidable challenges in coming years. In many countries, higher education systems will struggle to sustain coherence in the face of:
• resource challenges driven by scarcity of public funding;
• demographic change, with a number of countries facing significant population ageing and changes in ethnic mix, and others stretched by growing numbers of young people;
• heightened national and international competition for students and research funds;
• growing expectations from those who provide support for higher education of cost containment and demonstrated value for investment; and
• challenges to traditional modes of education structure and delivery, driven from a variety of directions including technological change, competency-based approaches, changes in national and global workplaces and new private or public forms of education provision.
These pressures and trends pose huge implications for the future of higher education and research. The burgeoning demand for education across the world shows no signs of fading, and the need for research across an ever wider range of fields can only grow as nations develop and humanity confronts the many challenges of the future. Institutions thus will need to adapt to take advantage of the opportunities available and to survive in rapidly changing environments. They will need both supportive policy frameworks and institutional ability and willingness to bring about effective change. Following Opening Addresses, the Conference will address these various matters by focusing on four themes:
• Mapping and meeting future demand for higher education
• The rise of higher education in Asia and the impact on the global landscape
• Technology, disruption and the ‘unbundling’ of higher education: challenges to traditional modes of education
• Two sides of the same coin: resources challenges, the drive for quality and imperatives for relevance
Each of these four themes will be the focus of a plenary session and accompanying parallel sessions. In addition, it is proposed that there be pre- and post-Conference workshops.

By Andrew Trounson. A proposal to measure research engagement by ranking universities on income from end users risks being meaningless unless backed up by peer review assessment, the Innovative Research Universities network has warned. 
At the centre of what is potentially a high-stakes fight over how to motivate universities to better engage with end users such as industry is the question of whether using a simple metric can truthfully capture the impact of research. Some claim this can only be assessed by comparing case studies. More...