The website PayScale collects data on salaries for American employees and employers. Among its publications is the Return on Investment (ROI) report which ranks US colleges and universities according to the financial value of an undergraduate degree. The basic methodology is to compare the cost of attending college including wages lost with the financial rewards derived from a college education. More...
04 juin 2018
Investing in Higher Education: The Payscale Rankings
Tilburg Economics Ranking: Poor Performance by India, Russia and Israel
The CentER for Research in Economics and Business at Tilburg University in the Netherlands publishes a global research ranking of Economics departments. It is based on a list of 74 leading journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance from which a subset of 35 journals has been derived to create a ranking of the top 100 institutions. More...
Colloque international : Orientation et transformation numérique / Guidance and digital transformation - Paris
L'Onisep et Euroguidance France Education organise le 8 juin 2018 au Lycée Louis le Grand à Paris, un colloque international Orientation et transformation numérique / Guidance and digital transformation : Quels outils et démarches pour accompagner les transitions scolaires et professionnelles dans un monde en changement ?
La révolution numérique transforme rapidement et en profondeur les organisations économiques et le marché du travail. Elle bouscule en retour le monde de la formation, confrontant les acteurs en charge de l’orientation à des interrogations nombreuses, et qui portent plus particulièrement sur la question des compétences à développer dans un parcours de formation et d’orientation scolaire et professionnelle.
Les politiques publiques développent aujourd’hui des services qui s’appuient sur les possibilités offertes par le numérique : d’une part, les démarches de portfolio, conduites au niveau national, européen ou international, d’autre part, des services de réponse en ligne, voulus comme au plus près de l’évolution des comportements des usagers. Simultanément, des startups de plus en plus nombreuses, investissent ce champ, en multipliant leur propre offre de services.
Ces réponses sont-elles adaptées ? Suffisantes ? Quels nouveaux outils, attitudes et démarches convient-il de développer pour aider élèves et étudiants à clarifier leurs objectifs personnels et professionnels et construire leurs compétences pour préparer leur insertion future ?
Par ailleurs, l’essor du numérique se poursuit et les techniques d’intelligence artificielle vont bouleverser encore un peu plus dans les décennies à venir les outils d’aide à la décision en général, pour passer d’une logique adaptative (catalogue de règles contextualisées) à une logique plus active approchant une réelle "intelligence artificielle". Ces évolutions constituent aussi des pistes prospectives de travail pour l’enseignement et la formation : en quoi peuvent-elles à ce stade de leur développement aider à penser de nouvelles réponses permettant de mieux prendre en compte les besoins des usagers, dans un souci d’optimisation des politiques publiques ?
Cette rencontre permettra de souligner et de discuter comment ces défis sont relevés en France et dans d’autres pays.
Plus d'information et inscription sur ce colloque sur le site de l'Onisep
New North-South-South project to be launched: EPICA
New North-South-South project to be launched: EPICA
eLearning Africa, 2018/05/10
Here's the entire post in eLearning Africa: "EPICA, funded by the European Union research programme Horizon 2020, is a project 2018 - 2020 coordinated by ICDE with 4 partners from Africa and 4 partners from Europe. The project will develop and implement ePortfolio in Sub-Saharan Africa. For more information about the project: www.epica-initiative.africa.". More...
What kinds of research matter to educators?
What kinds of research matter to educators?
Benjamin Doxtdator, 2018/05/10
This is a good discussion of the place of research in education. Benjamin Doxtdator takes Tom Bennett’s researchED conference as a point of departure, noting that "Bennett’s argument for evidence-based education has also largely been an argument to shore-up traditional practices in the face of new fads." It's not that we don't need a defense against fads. It's that we need a better defense. More...
How My Teaching and Technology Almost Failed One of My Students
How My Teaching and Technology Almost Failed One of My Students
Farhat Ahmad, EdSurge, 2018/05/10
The title should be "How bad questions misdiagnosed one of my students." And it's something that long predates the current digital age. In this case, the student is expected to pick up on some satire, but understanding satire requires background knowledge the student might not have. More...
Inside the Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers
Inside the Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers
Adrianne Jeffries, Bloomberg, 2018/05/11
This is the debate in a nutshell: "online advertising has grown so predatory that while blocking is estimated to cost publishers billions of lost revenue a year, it’s started to seem less like robbery than self-defense: Ads slow devices, eat up data plans, and sometimes deliver malware. Meanwhile, the industry is building ever-more-detailed dossiers on every user based on web habits." So how can advertising possibly work online. More...
Sunsetting Klout
Sunsetting Klout
PeteH, Lithium Community, 2018/05/11
Remember Klout? It is a service that collects your activity on impact on various social media and gives you a ranking - your 'klout score'. Anyhow, Klout is being shut down. More...
Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures”
Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures”
Melissa Daimler, Harvard Business Review, 2018/05/11
According to this article, "there are three elements to a culture: behaviors, systems, and practices, all guided by an overarching set of values." Issues arise when there are gaps between them. More...
Educational Technology and Education Conferences for June to December 2018
Educational Technology and Education Conferences for June to December 2018
Clayton R Wright, Stephen's Web, 2018/05/11
Clayton R. Wright offers the 39th version of the Educational Technology and Education Conference list. It comprises 1,782 confirmed events between May-December 2018. MS-Word Document. He writes, "The events for May and June have been updated since distribution of the previous list. During the last 20 years, as I have compiled the list, I have viewed tens of thousands of conference, symposium, and workshop websites. More...
