Various factors are putting increasing pressure on policy makers, researchers, firms and investors to explore pathways towards sustainable and efficient resource management. More...
14 février 2019
Investing in Resource Efficiency – The Economics and Politics of Financing the Resource Transition
01 juin 2018
Learning effectiveness : pour mieux enseigner au XXIème siècle
Blog Educpros de Jean-François Fiorina. Comme speaker de la récente conférence internationale EMEA/AACSB (avril 2018), je suis intervenu sur le thème du Learning Effectiveness (efficacité/efficience de l’apprentissage) : standard n°12 AACSB. Au vu des échanges nombreux qui ont suivi, la question interpelle. Plus...16 mars 2018
How to learn efficiently
How to learn efficiently
Daniel Lemire, Weblog, 2015/01/02
What's interesting about this post is the suggestion that efficient learning is the opposite of what we might think it is. Lemire first outlines three reasonable principles (quoted):
- Seek the most difficult problems
- Reflect on what you have supposedly learned
- Avoid learning from a single source
This is in fact exactly what I have done most of my life (even in public school, where I frequently went well beyond the curriculum to create 'projects' devoted to any of a variety of topics). More...
When it comes to Education and Technology, “Efficiency” is not the point
When it comes to Education and Technology, “Efficiency” is not the point
Steve Krause, stevendkrause.com, 2015/01/02
From The Hechinger Report, which Steve Krause states"'is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based at Teachers College, Columbia University' that apparently generates a lot of articles about education that get poured right into a lot of mainstream publications," we read that "the assumed purpose of technology (e.g., computer stuff, basically) in this article is efficiency, and some version of that word/theme appears at least a dozen times in this 1,000 or word so piece." This, he writes, misrepresents the purpose of technology in education. More...
12 mars 2018
Efficiency gains and sharing resources crucial for Cedefop’s core business
Referring to the invaluable role of the four operational departments at Cedefop, he said that projects, initiatives and online services target not only policy-makers but also VET training providers, practitioners and European citizens. More...24 février 2018
Efficiency and Effectiveness in Higher Education
By Doug Lederman. Efficiency and Effectiveness in Higher Education" is Inside Higher Ed's new downloadable compilation of articles. More...
17 avril 2017
Didask traque (enfin) l’efficacité pédagogique
Blog Educpros de Jean-François Fiorina. Co-fondée en 2015 par Son Thierry-Ly, ex Normale-Sup/Ecole d’économie de Paris, la Edtech DIDASK mise sur deux outils : la psychologie cognitive et l’adaptive learning pour apprendre efficacement. Basée sur la personnalisation de l’apprentissage et l’acquisition de compétences par l’exercice, la start-up exploite la recherche en psychologie cognitive, avec un seul objectif, créer des expériences d’apprentissage productives dont les résultats soient mesurables. Voir l'article...18 juillet 2016
Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Impact on Student Outcomes
In the wake of our initial distribution of this report, the authors discovered an inconsistency in programming that may have a minor effect on the values of the numerical findings they reported on. The research team is currently rerunning and checking all of our calculations; RAND will issue a revised report in late summer, 2016. The issues we have discovered with respect to Improving Teaching Effectivensss: Impact on Student Outcomes do not affect the findings we’ve reported in the related reports in the Improving Teaching Effectiveness series. More...
20 mai 2016
Efficiency in university management: USTREAM project takes off
The EUA-led USTREAM project is up and running after its launch in January of this year.
The initiative, which will run for three years, examines the measures that are in place in universities across Europe to enhance efficiency at operational and academic levels. More...
14 mai 2016
Three Universities Select OnBase by Hyland
OnBase by Hyland, a single enterprise information platform, was chosen by several schools to increase administrative efficiency and student services while decreasing overall costs. More...
