Fortes d’une décennie de coopérations actives, les universités de Caen Basse-Normandie, du Havre, de Rouen et les deux écoles d'ingénieurs l'ENSICAEN et l'INSA de Rouen se sont officiellement regroupées au sein du Pôle de Recherche et d'Enseignement Supérieur (PRES) interrégional Normandie Université en octobre 2011. Voir l'article...
Sorbonne Paris Cité is one of France's major university consortiums bringing together four Parisian universities and four higher education and research institutes:
These renowned institutions have decided to join forces in order to meet the challenges facing cutting edge research and academia in a changing world. More...
Today, with approximately 22 thousand students from 90 different countries, Near East University established in Nicosia, the capital of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, has earned a well-deserved international identity, offering high-standard educational opportunities with its qualified academic staff and its well-established infrastructure. More...
On 11-12 December, the OEC teams came together one last time in 2014 for two exciting events. Firstly, we attended the conference Education in the Digital Era, where the teams had the honour of being named the "European EdTech Startups of the Year." Some fantastic photos of the event are available on our Facebook page. Secondly, we held our Investors Day, where the teams pitched their projects to the Open Education Investment Club. More...
During the “HOME: MOOCs the European way” conference in Porto on November 27-28, we recorded several stimulating ideas and insightful comments from prominent figures of Open Education in Europe and beyond. More...
A community dedicated to the exchange of ideas on strategies for postsecondary education institutions to opening up education, with focus on emerging educational models and new ways of recognising learning. All stakeholders and practitioners are welcome. More...
The ICDE-UNESCO Policy Forum that took place in Bali, Indonesia, on 20 Nov 2014 was a high-level meeting of policy-makers and senior management in higher education institutions. The forum served two purposes: first, to inform about the ongoing consultation process for the post-2015 global education agenda, and second, to discuss how technology-enhanced learning is contributing to the future of education. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ICDE - UNESCO Policy Forum on open, online and flexible learning
Press Release, ICDE, 2014/12/11
An ICDE-UNESCO policy forum has called for "a new commitment is needed to opening up education, technology enhanced learning, the use of open educational resources, online, flexible and blended learning, research and innovation in the design, development, deployment and delivery of education at all levels." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Scalable and Sustainable Approach to Open Access Publishing and Archiving for Humanities and Social Sciences
Rebecca Kennison, Lisa Norberg, KN Consultants, 2014/12/05
I'm not really sure how much I support this - the idea of centralizing the system does not really appeal to me - but anything is better than the current system, and the proposal does address the problems inherent in the open access model based on individual payments made by researchers to publishers. More...
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