Blog Headway - Olivier Rollot. L’Université internationale de Monaco est le plus important établissement d’enseignement supérieur de Monaco. Accréditée par l’Amba pour ces masters, l’IUM est aujourd’hui en cours d’accréditation par l’AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business). Une business school au pays du business qui reçoit 600 étudiants venus du monde entier – 20% de Français, 16% d’Italiens, 14% de Russes, etc. Tous déboursent entre 12 000€ par an pour un bachelor, 16 à 22 000 pour un master et 35 000€ pour un MBA. Plus...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jon Udell[Edit][Delete]: On Business/Education Partnership, Infoworld [Edit][Delete]InfoWorld [Edit][Delete] June 8, 2006

I'm not so sold on Ruby, though I do think it's elegant. But I do share a lot in common with this view of learning: "Thanks to personal online publishing and to an emerging cultural ethos of transparency, there is an exciting new possibility in the world. A young person today who is interested in software can find out what it is like to be a software developer -- by evaluating products, by reading the accounts of people creating them, by making contact with those folks, and by contributing to real projects." To me the key words here are real projects - it is this, I think, that makes all the difference. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Daniel Schuhmann[Edit][Delete]: 500 Hour Test of Tomorrow's Windows Vista, June 3, 2006
This is an exhaustively comprehensive article previewing the forthcoming Windows Vista system composed of dozens of pages and hundreds of screen shots. The key, I think, is "a complete blurring of the boundaries between online services and normal software". More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Press Release[Edit][Delete]: Blackboard Unveils Blackboard Beyond Initiative, Blackboard [Edit][Delete] March 1, 2006
Well I guess it's official now - Blackboard has embraced e-learning 2.0. Proposals include "personalizing the e-Learning environment," facilitation of social networking, "Network Learning Environments," and workplace learning. It's pretty clear that I think they are moving in the right direction with this. More...