Le réseau des Ecoles de la 2e chance (E2C) révèle que sur les 14 339 jeunes décrocheurs accueillis en 2016, 62 % d'entre eux ont trouvé un emploi ou une formation, grâce à l'accompagnement post-formation. Parmi eux, 24 % accèdent à une formation qualifiante, 11 % à des contrats en alternance et 21 % trouvent un emploi. Voir l'article...
Organisation et fonctionnement du réseau des chambres de métiers et de l’artisanat
Le décret n°2017-343 modifie la gouvernance et le fonctionnement du réseau des chambres de métiers et de l'artisanat, en tenant compte de sa restructuration effectuée en application de l'ordonnance n° 2015-1540 du 26 novembre 2015 et de la loi n° 2016-298 du 14 mars 2016 relative aux réseaux des CCI et des CMA, à la suite de la loi n° 2015-29 du 16 janvier 2015 relative à la délimitation des régions, aux élections régionales et départementales et modifiant le calendrier électoral. Voir l'article...
‘Who shared it?’: How Americans decide what news to trust on social media
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ‘Who shared it?’: How Americans decide what news to trust on social media
Tom Rosenstiel, et.al., Amercial Press Institute, 2017/03/30
According to this report (13 page PDF) "when Americans encounter news on social media, how much they trust the content is determined less by who creates the news than by who shares it." How much they engage with it (for example, by passing it along) also depends more on who shares it. More...
A Bot That Can Tell When It's Really Donald Trump Who's Tweeting
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Bot That Can Tell When It's Really Donald Trump Who's Tweeting
Andrew McGill, The Atlantic, 2017/04/12
This is a pretty good example of what can be done with analytics. As we know, there are the tweets Donald Trump writes himself, and then there are tweets written by his press office. More...
Twitter exploring premium subscription service
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Twitter exploring premium subscription service
Mike Murphy, Market Watch, 2017/03/24
The suggestion is that Twitter might roll out an enhanced 'tweet-deck' application for a monthly fee. "The premium version would be aimed at marketers, journalists and professionals." More...
Dear Twitter. It’s not me, it’s you
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Dear Twitter. It’s not me, it’s you
David Hopkins, Technology Enhanced Learning Blog, 2017/03/02
I continue to use and monitor Twitter and I'm feeling the same way as this author. "My Twitter feed is now full of political commentary and all sorts of negative content that wasn’t there before.". More...
Against Expressive Social Media
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Against Expressive Social Media
Michael Caulfield, Hapgood, 2017/02/27
The early days of the internet split into two major categories: talk, and work. Talk took place on Usenet, work took place everywhere else. I was a work person; I didn't have much time for Usenet. Work eventually won out, and with the invention of the Web - a work thing - creativity flourished. More...
Hashtag heroes: using social media to combat intolerance
By . Since the Brexit referendum passed in the UK in the summer of 2016 and the election of Donald Trump in the USA in November 2016, higher education institutions in both nations have launched social media campaigns aimed at welcoming international students. More...
Studying Amino - un réseau pour partager le plaisir d'apprendre
Par Frédéric Duriez. Bien loin des généralistes Twitter, Facebook et Instagram, des réseaux spécialisés se multiplient. Les comptes sont beaucoup moins nombreux. Mais comme les centres d'intérêt convergent, les interactions sont plus importantes et les participants développent un véritable sentiment d'appartenance. Voir l'article...
Breaking Up With Social Media
By Kathleen Moore. Several GradHackers have written about how graduate students can use technological tools to not only enhance their productivity (See here and here), but also to establish and build a strong digital identity (See here, here, and here). Read more...