The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
What is the ideal size for an online group? According to this item, somewhere in the range of 45-50 people. It's an interesting article, looking at group size in primates, weblog analyses, Ultima Online guild sizes, and more. More...
More Firefox Search Plugins
More Firefox Search Plugins
If you use Firefox as your web browser (and you should), you may have seen the search field in the upper right. You can add your own search engines to this list by placing the search file and image to the searchplugins directory of Firefox. Brilliant. You can get an Edu_RSS search plugin here: search file and image. More...
Publishing And Delivering Video On The Web With Flash
Publishing And Delivering Video On The Web With Flash
I'm so busy today, trying to repair my referrer system, recover from a cold, learn French, upgrade DLORN, wrap up my DRM paper, see through the completion of eduSource DRM, exercise, write two papers and a column by the end of the month (and a presentation for Monday, and two more for next week), unpack from my Toronto trip, head for Quebec City tomorrow... so today's issue is a little short, OK. More...
Tribe.net Empowers Members to Open and Distribute Content
Tribe.net Empowers Members to Open and Distribute Content
One of the more established social networking sites, Tribe.Net, announced today the launch of RSS feeds for its 13,000 affinity groups (or 'tribes'). More...
E-Learning Provides Answers
E-Learning Provides Answers
Outline of a talk by a Namibian government minister Joel Kaapanda touting the benfits of online learning for the education of local government officials, part of coverage of an Electronic Distance Training in African Local Governments on Sustainable Development conference (EDITOSIA). More...
Universia, pionera del RSS
Universia, pionera del RSS
Some days you just say, this is as it should be, and other days, you just go "wow". This is a "wow" day. As Rebecca Rippin writes to me from Spain, "I thought you may like to know that this week Universia, the Hispanic world's largest university portal (over 700 partner universities spreading across Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Puerto Rico) has included RSS in its elearning section... This means that new electronic courses of over 700 hispanic universities are now available via RSS and that Universia are our first converts!!" This press release is in Spanish; or you can read Google's English translation. More...
Bee-coming a Webhead
Bee-coming a Webhead
I just picked up this link to Bee-coming a Webhead via Technorati - Bee is Barbara W. Juzwiak, who teaches English at a Franco-Brazilian school in São Paulo. Through this site, I found a link to Evonline 2004 Becoming a Webhead, a six week online conference connecting tecahers from around the world. More...
Inventaire : nouvelles certifications inscrites par la Commission Nationale de la Certification Professionnelle
CAPITALISER LES IMPACTS DE LA LOI POUR LA LIBERTE DE CHOISIR SON AVENIR PROFESSIONNEL
EVOLUTION DES DISPOSITIFS ET RESSOURCES DE LA FORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE, DE L'APPRENTISSAGE ET DE LA SECURISATION DE PARCOURS
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« Soutien aux démarches prospectives compétences » du Plan d’investissement dans les compétences
Présentation des 10 premiers lauréats de l’appel à projets (BRANCHES / OPCA)
Mercredi 10 octobre 2018, Jean-Marie Marx, Haut-Commissaire aux compétences et à l’inclusion par l’emploi, a reçu les 10 premiers lauréats de l’appel à projet « Soutien aux démarches prospectives compétences » du Plan d’investissement dans les compétences (PIC) lancé le 15 avril 2018.
Liste des projets lauréats :
Projet OPCA DEFI, OPCAIM, OPCALIM, OPCA 3+
Projet branche travail temporaire – FAF.TT
Projet filière culture création et communication porté par l’AFDAS
Projet interbranches porté par OPCALIA
Projet branches Transports, Logistique et Services porté par l’AFT et l’OPCA Transports et Services
Projet UDES-UNIFORMATION (ESS)
Projet porté par les branches du particulier employeur et Iperia
Projet branches relevant d’OPCA Défi et OPCA 3+
Projet branche commerce de détail et de gros à prédominance alimentaire
Projet porté la branche des métiers de l’ingénierie, du numérique, des études et conseil et de l’événement – FAFIEC