22 juillet 2017
12 juillet 2017
Open University issues warning over £2bn skills gap bill
Inaugural research by the Open University suggests that a severe skills gap is costing United Kingdom businesses more than £2 billion (US$2.6 billion) a year as companies struggle to find workers with the right attributes, writes Bradley Gerrard for The Telegraph. More...11 juillet 2017
The OER Moment
By Doug Lederman. "The OER Moment" is Inside Higher Ed's new print-on-demand compilation of articles. This collection of news and opinion articles may be downloaded here, free. More...
11 juillet 2017
Ontario Invests in Open Educational Resources
By Carl Straumsheim. The Canadian province of Ontario will invest about $740,000 (one million Canadian dollars) toward developing free online textbooks, the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development said this week. More...
9 juillet 2017
Worried by IT layoffs? Open online courses can future-proof your career
Techno-News Blog. After being laid-off by an information technology (IT) major in Chennai, Ashir Sharma (name changed) recently bagged a job at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), in Pune, after training himself in data analytics using the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). More...
25 juin 2017
OpenEdition. Plateformes de publication électronique en sciences humaines et sociales-OpenEdition
OpenEdition est une infrastructure complète d'édition électronique au service de la communication scientifique en sciences humaines et sociales, mise en œuvre par l'UMS Cléo (Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte). Elle rassemble quatre plateformes complémentaires dédiées respectivement aux collections de livres avec OpenEdition Books, aux revues avec Revues.org, aux blogs de recherche avec Hypothèses et aux annonces scientifiques avec Calenda. L'ensemble de ces plateformes reçoit 3 millions de visites mensuelles provenant du monde entier. Plus...
21 juin 2017
Open University set to go digital and shrinks budget
By Brendan O’Malley. The Open University or OU – the world’s first successful distance teaching university – is going digital and being streamlined in a bid to “radically reinvent itself” and make massive savings in the run-up to its 50th anniversary. Read more...
4 juin 2017
Participate in the European Commission’s public consultation on Erasmus+ - last days
The Open Public Consultation on the mid-term evaluation of the Erasmus+ Programme, carried out by the European Commission (EC), will end on 31 May 2017. This consultation invites various stakeholders as well as the general public to reflect on the relevance of the Erasmus+ programme, including its objectives, the effectiveness of measures taken to achieve them, and the efficiency of their implementation. More...
4 juin 2017
Open Science: EUA discusses the future of scientific publishing, open research data and alternative metrics
The High-Level Group specifically brings together university rectors and other leaders engaged in the negotiation of “big deals” with publishers on behalf of universities, and supports universities and national rectors’ conferences (NRCs) in these processes. For its fourth meeting, the group focused on two main issues related to the transition towards an open scientific publishing system: offset agreements in negotiations for open access (OA) to research publications situated within a gold OA context, and recommendations for green OA compliance. The group also discussed future models of sustainable and open academic publishing. More...
26 mai 2017
Europe’s future: Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World
The RISE group published its book 'Europe’s future: Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World' on 15 May 2017. The report was presented to Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, at discussed at a workshop in Brussels hosted by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)