Recently, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), released the Global Assessment – Summary for Policy Makers. The Assessment, the first of its kind, investigated the state of nature, in terms of its capacity to support future human wellbeing. More...
Teaching Through a Hurricane
With campus temporarily shuttered, many students didn’t have access to the technology and resources they needed to complete coursework. More...
Les formations environnementales mènent-elles à l’emploi ?
ESRI 2019 - 49 la recherche en environnement
Cette publication constitue un état des lieux annuel et chiffré du système français, de ses évolutions, des moyens qu’il met en œuvre et de ses résultats, en le situant, chaque fois que les données le permettent, au niveau international.
L'état de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation en France (édition juillet 2019).
En 2016, les dépenses de R&D consacrées directement ou indirectement à l’environnement sont évaluées à 5,2 milliards d’euros (Md€), soit 11 % de la dépense intérieure de R&D. Plus de la moitié des dépenses de R&D en environnement (hors Énergie et Transports) est prise en charge en 2016 par les entreprises, contre 20 % en 2000. Plus...
Share your experiences in transforming learning environments
Much has been said in recent years about the need for education to meet the changing needs of students. It is no longer sufficient for teachers to merely impart ‘received wisdom’ to rows of students in classrooms lined up in a row along a corridor. Differentiated learning demands differentiated spaces. More...
Further Reflections on the Personal Learning Environment
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Derek Morrison[Edit][Delete]: Further Reflections on the Personal Learning Environment, Auricle [Edit][Delete] July 3, 2006
All Canadians have most of their medical expenses paid for by our system of public health care. So health is a sensitive issue in this country, because while Canadians strongly support their system, corporations and private interests try constantly to undermine it, to open it up to private enterprise. It is in this context that the electronic patient record (EPR) is discussed in Canada. I have been involved in some of those discussions, the tenor of which has varied from "there has to be room for profit in the EPR system" to "we're going to implement it no matter what the public thinks". More...
The Value for Climate Action
France's ambition is to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions on national soil by 2050. This is the "Net-Zero" goal: net zero greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, with residual gross emissions to be absorbed by carbon sinks – which include forests, grasslands and, further down the road, carbon capture and storage technology. More...
Comment faire enfin baisser les émissions de CO2 des voitures
Réduire « enfin » les émissions de CO2 des voitures nécessite de réorienter le marché vers des voitures plus légères, fabriquées avec de l’électricité décarbonée, et de mettre en place un plan industriel assurant à l’Europe son autonomie dans la fabrication des voitures électriques et de leurs batteries. Plus...
What Constitutes Personal Learning Environments?
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Sebastian Fiedler[Edit][Delete]: What Constitutes Personal Learning Environments?, Seblogging [Edit][Delete] March 3, 2006
Seb Fiedler summarizes some of the recent discussion around personal leaning environments. Good, recent, set of links. He writes, "I treat personal learning environments more as a psychological perspective. What forms my 'personal learning environment' at a given point in time, and for a particular purpose or goal (that drives a learning project), is largely determined by the range of resources that I am able to perceive, locate, link to, access, manage, and so forth". More...
Personal Learning Environment Model
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jeremy Hiebert[Edit][Delete]: Personal Learning Environment Model, HeadsPaceJ [Edit][Delete] February 21, 2006
I don't think I've covered this (sorry if I have) and I don't want to risk it passing by without comment. In this item, Jeremy Hiebert revises his Personal Learning Environment (PLE) model. I'm not quite sure I'm there with it. I like the idea of trying to get at the function, rather than the type, of applications involved. But a lot seems missing. Where is personal identity? Where is community? I want to see 'who am I' and 'who do I know' as prominant in such a diagram. More...