Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. « Caltech (California Institute of Technology) a été désigné meilleure université du monde en 2014 par le classement du Times Higher Education. Cela n’est pas une surprise, puisque cela fait quatre ans que Caltech truste la première place de ce classement »…
« Caltech ne compte qu’environ 300 professeurs et 600 chercheurs, avec une population étudiante d’environ 2000 personnes. Loin d’être une faiblesse, cette taille relativement limitée en terme d’effectif représente un atout considérable »… Suite...
28 octobre 2014
Caltech. Small is beautiful
Jeunes chercheurs maltraités
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Sciences en marche a réussi la mobilisation pour que « les sciences soient notre avenir ». Celle-ci n’a pas suffi pour faire bouger les lignes : tout va mal pour les jeunes chercheurs, doctorants, docteurs, post-doctorants. Tout va mal, et cela est d’autant plus inquiétant que le nombre de doctorats délivrés est en progression constante : 13.686 en 2012, dont 8.267 en sciences hors-santé (RERS 2014, indicateur 8.20). Suite...
COMUE SPC : assez !
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. La Communauté d’universités et d’établissements Université Sorbonne Paris Cité comprend quatre universités parmi ses membres fondateurs : Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 5 Descartes, Paris 7 Diderot, Paris 13 Nord Villetaneuse. Suite...
Research about cMOOCs
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Research about cMOOCs
Heli Nurmi, Heli connecting ideas, 2014/10/28
Heli Nurmi summarizes the article Participants’ Perceptions of Learning and Networking in Connectivist MOOCs, written by Mohsen Saadatmand and Kristiina Kumpulainen. "The results show that participation in MOOCs challenges learners to develop self-organization, self-motivation, and a reasonable amount of technological proficiency to manage the abundance of resources and the more open format. More...
Stop Being So Positive
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stop Being So Positive
Gabriele Oettingen, Harvard Business Review, 2014/10/28
Although it addresses an important point, the title is very misleading. The study cited in the article (Future thought and behaviour change) is actually pretty interesting, but it divides future thoughts (ie., thoughts about the future) into 'fantasies' and 'beliefs'. More...
Training the Trainers for Linked Data
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Training the Trainers for Linked Data
Seth van Hooland, Ruben Verborgh, International Conference on Dublin Core, Metadata Applications DC-2014, 2014/10/28
I'm very much a linked-data kind of person; it suits the way I think far more than documents or even things like index cards. That's probably no real surprise to people. This post takes that way of thinking and expands it into a tutorial for practitioners. It's a set of slides (117 page PDF) that defines linked data, explains the advantages, and provides practical guidance in its application through four major steps: clean your metadata, reconcile with authoritative sources, enrich your metadata, share on the (open) web. More...
Stand Up for Education
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stand Up for Education
Various authors, National Union of Teachers, 2014/10/27
Britain's National Union of Teachers (NUT) has released a manifesto (16 page PDF) addressing changes to the direction of that nation's schools. While the document is focused on the British general election slated for 2015, the document has wider relevance. More...
Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”
Isaac Asimov, MIT Technology review, 2014/10/24
Isaac Asimov was very influential on me ion my youth, and I read many of the dozens and dozens of books he authored. This essay is a previously unpublished article he wrote on creativity, and it is not surprising to see the affinity between my own thought and what he wrote. More...
Poverty Is Strongest Factor in Whether High School Graduates Enroll in College
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Poverty Is Strongest Factor in Whether High School Graduates Enroll in College
Laurie Arnston, Higher Education Today, 2014/10/24
Despite all the emphasis on how important teaching and testing are for improving educational outcomes, the fact remains that the worst results from higher-income schools are still better than the best results from low-income schools. More...
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, IMS Global Learning Consortium...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, IMS Global Learning Consortium, and International Digital Publishing Forum Announce Digital Learning Metadata Alliance
Press Release, IMS, 2014/10/24
According to this press release issued by IMS, the new organization will be called the Digital Learning Metadata Alliance and can be found at dlma.org. More...
