By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. At OTF Teaching, Learning & Technology Conference – Hopscotch, Sphero, Social Reading
Doug Peterson, doug - off the record, 2014/08/26
What Doug Peterson describes here is very similar to my own workflow, readingflow, whateverflow. It's a restatement of the "aggregate-remix-repurpose-feed forward" methodology, identifying specific tools that can be used to accomplish it. More...
Crisis, Innovation and Transition (colloque Innovation Forum VI)
In a period of deep industrial as well as financial crisis, innovation and firms restructuring is a major challenge to economics and social sciences. The aim of the conference is the identification of renewed frameworks and models as well as major propositions of structural, technological and institutional change to renew the toolbox in use in economics and management sciences. This broad stake can be taken theoretically, applied to different industries, regions or countries. Innovation Forum VI will pay a special attention to Maghreb countries as representative of transition countries.
Ce colloque aura lieu les 1, 2, et 3 octobre 2014 à l'Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. Il est organisé par le laboratoire Economix (Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), le Réseau de Recherche sur l'Innovation (RRI) et le CEE. Participeront à ce colloque Héloïse Petit, Richard Duhautois et Jean-Louis Dayan.
By Sydni Dunn - Chronicle Vitae. New York—Inside a classroom at the City University of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, nearly 30 contingent academic workers debated which verb was more powerful: “shape” or “animate.”
It may sound like a trivial matter, but the group had a job to do. By the end of the two-hour session, participants had to craft a 100-word proposal on how higher-education laborers could build a national strategy for change. Every word counted. See more...
La société française, à l’image des sociétés européennes a intégré l’importance de la qualité de la formation pour le développement de la société de la connaissance.
La qualité de l’enseignement et donc des enseignants et de leur formation s’impose comme la plus impérieuse condition pour proposer et garantir une formation de haut niveau.
C’est dans ce contexte et que s’inscrit la réforme des Ecoles Supérieures du Professorat et de l’Education (ESPE). Fait inédit en France cette réforme inscrit la formation des enseignants dans le contexte global de la professionnalisation de ce métier et en confie clairement la responsabilité à l’université.
De ce fait l’université est donc confrontée à des questions nombreuses et stratégiques. En effet, il va de soi que l’université est tout à fait en mesure d’assurer et d’assumer les enjeux de la professionnalisation : elle le fait depuis longtemps dans le champ de la santé, du droit ou de l’ingénierie. Elle maitrise par ailleurs tout à fait la construction des formations en partenariat avec l’employeur, comme le montre notamment l’expérience des licences professionnelles et des masters.
La formation des enseignants, tâche noble pour laquelle l’université s’est aujourd’hui engagée, impose cependant l’invention d’un nouveau modèle dans notre pays, qui tienne compte tout à la fois des enjeux de l’enseignement scolaire, mais aussi des paramètres de l’enseignement supérieur.
Cette problématique nécessite un regard comparatif sur les systèmes en place au niveau international, mais aussi la prise en compte de ce qui caractérise la formation universitaire : le rapport à la recherche des formations. Elle se doit de prendre en compte par ailleurs la diversité des métiers de l’enseignement et de la formation tout en posant l’hypothèse de leur fondement professionnel commun.
Elle implique enfin la prise en compte des modèles de formation les plus à même de répondre à l’ensemble de ces défis, en particulier du point de vue de l’alternance, du numérique, de la place des formations universitaires dans la trajectoire professionnelle de l ‘enseignant, ou de l’innovation.
Colloque organisé en partenariat avec la CASDEN, le 9 octobre de 9h à 17h, Lycée Louis-Le-Grand, Paris 5ème
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IMOTION (Integration and Promotion of Staff Training Courses at Universities across Europe) is a one-year project funded by the EC Lifelong Learning Programme. Coordinated by the Network of the Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA) with a consortium of partners it aims to create an online platform that will centralise information about staff training events organised in Europe in order to provide easy access to the information.
The IMOTION project Final Conference takes place in Brussels on 9 September 2014 and aims to give participants an insight into “the latest trends and current challenges related to the competence development of university administrative staff”. The organisers also note that the conference will mark the end of the IMOTION project with the official launch of the IMOTION staff training platform. More...
1st International Conference on Development of Research in Higher Education 2014 - ICDRHE - 2014 August 11- 13, 2014 Amman - Jordan
Welcome to the official website of the 2014 1st International Conference on Development of Research in Higher Education, will be held during August 11-13, 2014, in Amman - Jordan. ICDRHE-2014, aims to bring together researchers, scientists, lecturers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of education, research and innovation, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.
The conference will be held every year to make it an ideal platform for expertise to share views and experiences in research and innovation and related areas. Another aim of ICDRHE-2014 is to provide an opportunity for professionals and students from various educational and research fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of searching methods.
This conference has been established to treat and develop the application of research in universities and higher education, by developing research methods and methodologies and identify the most recent scientific applications for scientific research.
By Karen MacGregor. Growing numbers of university leaders worldwide are seeing community engagement as a central priority, says Professor Robert M Hollister, executive director of the Talloires Network – a global coalition of universities committed to moving beyond the ivory tower. Rather than distracting from engagement, internationalisation is “dramatically reinforcing and accelerating that trend, through people learning from and influencing one another’s work”.
With fine wine and dine the ACA Annual Conference 2014 convened between 15 and 17 June in the wonderful city of Bordeaux, for its 10th edition. Close to 250 participants were actively engaged over the 2.5 conference days in social activities, dynamic sessions and parallel discussions around the overarching theme – Europe in the world. Higher education developments across the globe. Among other compelling topics, speakers and participants alike looked into the attractiveness of the European higher education area, the geopolitics and future of global higher education, and Europe’s cooperation and position towards the Mediterranean, the US, China, Africa, Russia, India and the Gulf states.
ACA’s main partner for this event was one of its two member organisations from France, the Agence Europe-Education-Formation France (2e2f). Additionally, the Université de Bordeaux 1 hosted the event, while the City of Bordeaux held the welcome reception. The ACA Secretariat is very grateful to the co-organisers and to all the people that worked towards making this event a success. More...
At the 2014 Annual ACA Conference Nuffic’s Beer Schröder participated in a session on Africa. He concluded with an appeal to European institutions to continue their support: "It would be scandalous if they would leave African institutions in the lurch, only to be able to invest in a higher international ranking for themselves."
The 2014 Conference of the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) in Bordeaux (15-17 June) focused on the theme: ‘Europe in the World. Higher education trends across the globe’. There were sessions on recent trends in major non-European countries/regions, and also on partnerships between Europe and universities in these regions. More...
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