On the day the Augar report appeared, I said on the radio that it felt like Christmas Day. To a higher education policy wonk, over 200 pages of tightly-argued and long-awaited text on how to reform higher education is a rare but exciting gift. More...
Facilitating deeper learning with emerging technologies and the power of workstations. More...
Colleges and universities are attempting to bring science and practice together to address the mental health and well-being of college students. But they have a long way to go—the best practices that can help institutions deliver counseling and psychological services (CAPS) in higher education. More...
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the UN member states in 2015, represent an ambitious, but achievable, agenda to make the world better. Importantly, they are a reminder that world leaders have agreed on common goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. More...
As part of the Digital Education Action Plan of the European Commission, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) organises a 24-hour Digital Education Hackathon (DigiEduHack) on 3 October 2019. More...
The ‘Strategy for education policy of the Czech Republic 2030+’ (Strategy 2030+) is expected to be finalised by spring 2020, setting the directions for Czech education in the next decade. More...
Le développement urbain a mené à la création des gratte-ciel, d’immenses tours pouvant comprendre autant des logements que des bureaux. Au début du vingtième siècle, les experts affirmaient même que ceux-ci allaient régler les problèmes de trafic dans le futur. En effet, avec les voitures volantes et les hélicoptères, les travailleurs allaient pouvoir se rendre facilement à leur travail sans avoir à passer par les voies pavées. Presque 100 ans plus tard, il semble que les prospectives étaient un peu trop optimistes. Plus...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Saul J. Berman, Louisa A. Shipnuck and Niall Duffy[Edit][Delete]: The End of TV As We Know It: A Future Industry Perspective, IBM [Edit][Delete] February 20, 2006
A good report, with advice that applies equally well to learning. "Invest in divergent strategies and supply chains for bimodal consumer types... Innovate business and pricing models by creating - not resisting - wider consumer choice... Develop, trial, refine, roll-out". More...
Hasta hace algunos años, quizá una década, las preocupaciones que tenían los padres cuando sus hijos llegaban a la edad adolescente, aparte de cuestiones relacionadas con los estudios, se centraban en cosas como el primer consumo de alcohol, el coqueteo con las drogas, los riesgos ante un sexo sin protección, peleas nocturnas tras una noche de fiesta, etc. More...
By Joshua Kim. Each year, I find myself eagerly anticipating reading the Horizon Report, as it is good fun to think about the technologies that we will be using on campus in 5 years. And then, each year the Horizon Report leaves me disappointed, as I come away from reading the document thinking that the Report thinking that it is asking the wrong questions. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
