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14 février 2018

Information affordances: Studying the information processing activities of the core Occupy actors on Twitter

Information affordances: Studying the information processing activities of the core Occupy actors on Twitter
Sikana Tanupabrungsun, Jeff Hemsley, Bryan Semaan, First Monday, 2018/02/02
In research and design my focus is more on creating affordances than outcomes. This allows for the creation of different outcomes by different people, in different contexts. It's also, I think, a better basis for the study of media. This paper offers a good example. It examines how the affordances offered by Twitter influenced leadership and activism in Occupy Wall Street. More...

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14 février 2018

Reflections on 20 Years of Open Content: Lessons from Open Source

Reflections on 20 Years of Open Content: Lessons from Open Source
David Wiley, OER18, Association for Learning Technology, 2018/02/02
David Wiley candidly admits that this history is written from his own point of view, which is a good thing, because my experience of these events was very different. For example, in the mid-1990s, when Wiley was working on an ISP startup, I was working on a FreeNet. I had been using and creating non-commercial shareware (including most especially extensive BBS systems and MUDLibs) for years by the time open source advocates gathered to launch the movement in 1998. More...

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14 février 2018

Return of the MOOCs

Return of the MOOCs
Mene Ukueberuwa, City Journal, 2018/02/02
This article offers a bit of a history of MOOCs but is mostly (starting about a third of the way in ) an article about the Modern States "freshman year for free" project (no explanation why they couldn't use the long-established gender-neutral term 'frosh', as in 'frosh year for free', or even 'first year for free'). It's marketing. More...

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14 février 2018

University defends awarding of PhD to Grace Mugabe

The vice-chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe has defended the awarding of a PhD to Grace Mugabe for her work on orphanages. The former first lady’s thesis has been subject to intense scrutiny since it was posted on the university’s website last month, with critics saying it falls far short of the normal standard required for a doctorate, reports Eyewitness News. More...

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14 février 2018

Struggling universities advised to merge for survival

The Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has advised private universities having challenges in getting the right numbers for admission to merge in order not to fizzle out, reports Ghana Web. More...

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14 février 2018

Two top universities divest from fossil fuels

The University of Edinburgh and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London have separately announced they will both have fully divested from fossil fuels within three years, following up on previous climate action pledges made by the two institutions, writes Michael Holder for BusinessGreen. More...

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14 février 2018

Government allocates funds for university reforms

More than MAD70 billion (US$7.6 billion) is reportedly being dedicated to improving material resources and educational conditions for Moroccan university students during the current academic year, said the head of government, Saad Eddine El Othmani, on 5 February while speaking before the House of Representatives in Rabat, writes Sana Elouazi for Morocco World News. More...

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14 février 2018

Students demand compensation over lecturer strikes

Students whose studies will be hit by what unions claim will be “the most extensive strike action ever seen” on campuses in the United Kingdom are planning to demand compensation from their universities for disruption to their degrees, writes Sally Weale for The Guardian. More...

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14 février 2018

Sub-standard universities will be closed, warns minister

The Mozambican government has repeated its warning that sub-standard institutions of higher education will be forced to close down if they do not improve their performance by October, reports Mozambique News Agency. More...

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14 février 2018

Tech universities boost economy by billions – Report

Switzerland’s federal technology institutes account for 100,000 jobs and CHF13 billion (US$13.7 billion) in added value to the economy, a new report calculates. This represents a fivefold return on investment, reports Swiss Info. More...

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