By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Competency Based Learning Management
Good article defining and then describing arguments both for and against competency based learning management (CBLM). The idea of CBLM is that a given task or occupation can be broken down to a set of constituent skills. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Japan OCW Alliance
Six Japanese universities have formed an OpenCourseWare alliance and are offering their learning content for free on the internet. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Beeb Shall Inherit the Earth
Article describing the war the BBC has embraced user generated content, and in so doing, has made itself an internet pioneer. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Imagining the World: The Case for Non-Rendered Virtuality - the Role Play Simulation Model
A 'rendered' virtual environment is one in which the scene is generated dynamically by the computer, such as in Doom or Quake or in flight simulators. The author's argument in this paper is that rendering in educational games detracts from a focus on pedagogy and is, moreover, unnecessary. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Introduction to elearning - Part 1
The content of George Siemens's presentation will be familiar to readers of his work, and the presentation delivers what it promises in the title. Designers will be interested in the tool he uses to present the material, Articulate Presenter, which creates Flash-based presentations (a demo version is available at the site). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Lot to Chew On ....
Good post summarizing a presentation by Alan November (he has a blog, but it is infrequently updated - it doesn't even contain his own presentation). Part of what November says makes sense. "Kids have to learn how to think globally, to manage massive amounts of information and they have to be self-directed in their learning." But in places its a narrow view. More...
Du 18 mars au 14 juin 2019, se déroule la 10e édition du festival métiers à l’affiche. Comme chaque année, organisé par Entreprises dans la cité (EdC), cet événement s’adresse aux collégiens et lycéens avec pour objectif d'enrichir l’orientation et la connaissance des métiers. Sous forme de séances pédagogiques autour de films sur les métiers, les élèves débattent et votent. Plus...
Pour faire se rencontrer d’un côté les employeurs qui recrutent dans les secteurs de l’industrie et de l’autre des candidats à l’emploi, Pôle emploi de Saint-Nazaire, la Carène et l’UIMM co-organisaient le 19 mars dernier le Forum cap industrie. Plus...
L’École de la deuxième chance de l’estuaire de la Loire (E2CeL) et le Cnam des Pays de la Loire ont co-construit un dispositif ludique et créatif d’une journée. L’objectif : donner aux jeunes sans diplôme ni emploi, accueillis à l’E2CeL, des clés pour construire leur parcours. Plus...
Sixty-plus international organizations, led by the United Nations and including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group and World Trade Organization, jointly sounded the alarm Thursday in a new report, warning that unless national and international financial systems are revamped, the world’s governments will fail to keep their promises on such critical issues as combatting climate change and eradicating poverty by 2030. More...
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