By Steven Mintz. Just six or seven years ago, many thought mistakenly that for-profit education or competency-based education or MOOCs or boot camps or personalized, adaptive software was the winning model. It isn’t. More...
18 mai 2019
16 mai 2019
L'Industrie du Futur dans les secteurs de la chimie et du papier-carton
Une étude de la DGE (Direction générale des entreprises), France Chimie et Copacel intitulée l'"Industrie du Futur dans les secteurs de la chimie et du papier-carton : amélioration des outils de production et apport du numérique" a permis d'identifier douze solutions innovantes et pertinentes et d'analyser les effets de compétitivité qu’elles sont susceptibles d’engendrer, d'examiner les conditions de leur mise à œuvre, et de proposer une démarche cohérente pour leur déploiement au sein des entreprises. Plus...
12 mai 2019
France Stratégie - Prospective des métiers et des qualifications
Prospective des métiers et des qualifications (PMQ) est un exercice conjoint réalisé par France Stratégie et la Direction de l'animation de la recherche, des études et des statistiques (Dares). Il réunit l’ensemble des partenaires et administrations concernés, afin d’examiner les perspectives en matière d’évolution des ressources en main-d’œuvre et d’emploi par métiers. Plus...29 avril 2019
Futures thinking with Bruce Sterling
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Futures thinking with Bruce Sterling
Bryan Alexander, 2019/01/03
Summary and link to a talk by Bruce Sterling. There are two propositions: first, to be a futurist is to pick an audience "that agrees to value a certain aspect of futuring." Second, these audiences can be defined along the lines of Stewart Brand’s Pace layers. Clearly Sterling's talk was tailored to this audience, the Long Now Foundation. More...
29 avril 2019
96 edtech predictions for K12 in 2019
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 96 edtech predictions for K12 in 2019
Ellen Ullman, eSchool News, 2019/01/02
People don't ask me for my Ed Tech predictions any more, probably because I don't join the usual crowd of predictions focusing on content delivery media (VR, XR, etc) or business focus (socft sckills, socio-emotional learning , etc). Or predictions describing stuff that happened last year. More...
28 avril 2019
Youth organisations and the 2030 Agenda
Youth organisations play a crucial role in the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and young people are recognised in it as “critical agents for change”. Three years into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, what role do youth organisations in Europe play. More...
28 avril 2019
Transforming the Businesses that are Transforming our World
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – under the banner of transforming our world – is a call to action. All countries and all stakeholders are invited to implement this agenda, including the private sector. More...
25 avril 2019
The Future for University Strategies
In my recent analysis of the published strategies of 52 UK universities (University Strategy 2020), I discovered that almost 63% of university strategies have end dates in 2019, 2020 or 2021 and hence will need to be re-written and re-launched over the next few years. More...
22 avril 2019
University 2060: the brave new world of higher education
Higher education, 2060: academics are out of a job. All the brand name universities have made all their courses free online, easily doing away with one side of the teaching and learning equation. More...21 avril 2019
Vulture Capitalism and the Future of Higher Education
By Steven Mintz. The costs of ceding core functions
If you haven’t read Kevin Carey’s “The Creeping Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education,” a chilling account of Online Program Managers, drop whatever you’re doing and read it right now. More...
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