Sur le blog Educpros de François Fourcade. Pour prendre un exemple parmi les 40 projets menés dans le cadre du CIRPP, s’inscrivant dans notre démarche de recherche action existentielle (voir à ce propos le premier acte de ce billet), il faut citer le travail mené depuis plus de trois ans au sein du CFI (centre des formations industrielles), avec une équipe de 11 profs intervenant dans une classe préparatoire à l’apprentissage… Ils ont fait appel au CIRPP à un moment où ils se sentaient impuissants et épuisés face aux défis posés par les situations auxquelles ils étaient confrontés. Et ce n’est que depuis cette année que ces enseignants ont retrouvé, à nouveau, goût à expérimenter, à travailler en équipe… Nous revenons de loin ! More...

Sur le blog Educpros de François Fourcade. Comment changer en profondeur nos pratiques d’enseignement ? Comment apprendre du terrain pour modifier nos façons de faire et de voir ? Comment inviter le terrain à élargir le champ des pratiques possibles ? Le CIRPP s’est donné comme ambition d’accompagner les profs des 24 écoles de la Chambre de commerce et d’industrie Paris-IDF dans la résolution de ces questions. More...

By Audrey Watters. Below are the notes and the slides from my talk today at Open Education 2013. David Kernohan and I shared the morning keynote slot today, and we were asked by David Wiley to offer a critique of open education. And so we did. You can find more details about Kernohan's talk here. Be sure to watch the documentary he made.
The Education Apocalypse
A couple of years ago, the Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that Jesus would return to earth on May 21, 2011. The Rapture would occur, as alluded to in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 — when the "dead in Christ" and "we who are alive and remain" will be "caught up in the clouds" to meet "the Lord in the air.” That is, the souls of all the righteous — living or dead — would be lifted into Heaven.
When Camping emerged from his home on May 22, the morning after the date he’d set — “flabbergasted” — he revised his predictions. Initially, he’d stated that the May 21 Rapture would be followed by five months of fire and brimstone before the world ended on October 21. More...

By John Lombardi. The ongoing pursuit of the cheapest and least intrusive higher education alternatives continues apace. Some find the activity new and exciting, although of course we’ve always been able to get educated by reading books and studying on our own.  The new twist is that we can now sign up for computer mediated reading and studying on our own, a convenience in the fast-food tradition of highly efficient standardized production of useful commodity products. To guarantee the benefit of this form of higher education, we develop a battery of tests that ensure no student is left behind in the race to certification as an educated and competent adult. Many in the state-supported higher education policy realm see these tests as mechanisms to reduce the number of students in real universities and drive them through a fast food education that produces certification at a low cost, perhaps only $10K or less for a college diploma. Read more...

By Shawn E. Fisher. “Now bear with me, Gentlemen, if what I am about to say has at first sight a fanciful appearance.”
--John Henry Cardinal Newman, from The Idea of a University
Imagine your job is to help students get into college, and one of the students you’re advising says to you, “It has always been my dream to study philosophy at Harvard.”
Let’s say that this student is graduating from a private prep school and you know that money will not be a major worry for her either during or after the college years. Read more...

The next HEA Research and Policy seminar/webinar will be based on a HEA-funded research inquiry into the relationship between HE pedagogy and developments around flexible learning.