By Michael Feldstein. My last post was called "Is Ed Tech Hype in Remission?" It was about—surprise!—the interesting phenomenon of ed tech hype seemingly fading for the moment. I started the post by apparently breaking a little news. More...
By Michael Feldstein. Last Wednesday, there was an announcement about an investment in Civitas Learning that appeared to escape the notice of the educational press. Even EdSurge and Education Dive, which are both pretty good about covering the investment side of ed tech, seem to have missed it. More...
By Michael Feldstein. Carnegie Mellon and Duke are theoretically peers. To use one very imperfect measure, they are both ranked in the top 25 national universities by US News and World Report. They are both more specifically ranked in the top 15 such schools for undergraduate teaching. More...
By Phil Hill and Jason Cole. Moodle unveiled its new product, Moodle Workplace, at the the Learning Technologies conference in London three weeks ago. While the open source Moodle LMS has been used by companies and organizations for employee training for years (approximately 40% of Moodle implementations worldwide according to this 2015 interview), Workplace represents a new approach for Moodle's usage of open source deployment. More...
By Jason Cole. I recently spent a day at BETT (formerly known as the British Educational Training and Technology show), the UK’s largest educational technology show. The show tends to skew towards the primary and further education market (k-12 and community college in the US), but there is also significant higher education presence. More...
Le French Fab Tour est une tournée de 60 dates à travers toute la France à destination des Industriels, étudiants, enseignants et demandeurs d’emploi. Elle est destinée à : promouvoir l’industrie et susciter des vocations chez les jeunes, mettre en relation demandeurs d’emploi et les industriels locaux et co-construire l’industrie de demain. Plus...Organisée par l’Espace Régional d’Orientation (ERO) du bassin d’emploi de La Rochelle, la « Place de l’Orientation » revient le 20 mars 2019, de 11h00 à 17h00 sur la Place de Verdun à La Rochelle. Plus...
Le service FSE de la Direccte Provence-Alpes-Côte d`Azur organise une rencontre des différents opérateurs engagés dans le projet "Initiatives pour l`Emploi des Jeunes (IEJ) 2015-2020", co-financé par les crédits des volets déconcentrés des programmes opérationnels nationaux.
L`IEJ est un accompagnement de 4 à 6 mois qui aide les jeunes sans emploi ou déscolarisés à s`insérer dans la vie active.
Une trentaine de structures offrent cet accompagnement dans les Bouches-du-Rhône et le Var.
Un catalogue vous permet par ailleurs de prendre connaissance des différents acteurs impliqués, d`une description des projets ainsi que des personnes à contacter : il sera présenté et distribué aux participants à cette occasion.
Ces opérateurs vous présenteront leurs dispositifs le 12 mars 2019 à partir de 14 heures à l`amphithéâtre de l`Ecole de la deuxième chance (360, chemin de la Madrague-Ville 13015 Marseille).
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By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Knowmad Society
John Moravec, March 20, 2013
A Knowmad is "a nomadic knowledge worker, that is, a creative, imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere." In this volume on the Knowmads, nine authors bring togethr their ideas on the future of work. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Blackboard’s New Early Warning Analytics Product
Michael Feldstein, e-Literate, March 20, 2013
Michael Feldstein summarizes Blackboard's new "early warning system." As Blackboard CEO Ray Henderson writes, the system "gives critical insight on learning and activity gaps to instructors, within the LMS, that helps them quickly diagnose students that are falling behind. More...
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