Identifier grâce aux échanges avec des entreprises, des Opca et des prestataires de formation, les bonnes pratiques en matière de réponses aux demandes d'achat de formation des entreprises. Cette séance basée sur les témoignages d’organismes de formation (Aft-Iftim, Dafpic et FFP) et d'entreprise, a pour objectif d’échanger avec le public et de déterminer les bonnes pratiques en matière d'achat de formation.
Elle aura lieu le 10 avril de 9h30 à 12h30, au CarifOref, 19 rue Carmin à Labège.

By Viplav Baxi. Seems like there is a load of activity on MOOCs fuelled by the EdX platform and run by the IITs. New courses are being announced for a global audience. India is formally EdX-ified, it seems. Reason primarily is the non-profit status and the course content available on EdX. Concerns include being able to do SPOCs on the platform, enabling blended MOOCs, leveraging EdX content and basically being able to manage an open sourced deployment of EdX. The term SPOC seems to have made its way into the dominant vocabulary. Institutions want to limit the online experience to their students to justify the business model. This absolute jewel of a comment from Anant Agarwal of EdX says it all – he believes MOOCs can also be used as enhanced online textbooks. More...

By Joyce Valenza. There’s a world of difference between online learning and networked learning. I taught my first online course back in 2001. Back in 2012, when I returned to the LMS (learning management system) or CMS (course management system) after eleven years, I realized that not much had changed inside the course management system, while changes outside of it had pretty much blown the walls off our libraries and classrooms. More...

By Will Fenton. Conversations about the future of humanities tend to follow a predictable recipe: begin with a spoonful of anxiety (see also: fear, despair); add a smattering of nostalgia (for a bygone era when distinguished faculty members landed their first jobs); bring to boil under a fire of realism (kindled by junior faculty); and garnish with pride (enjoyed by all).
Peter Brooks’ seminar at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus was one of the more unpredictable conversations I have attended on the future of the humanities, aided in no small part by Brooks’ superb book, Humanities in Public Life, and an eclectic cadre of graduate students, faculty, deans, administration, and interlocutors from business, law, and the sciences. More...

NEW YORK, February 24, 2014 — The Graduate Center, City University of New York, has announced that leading interdisciplinary and technology scholar Cathy N. Davidson will join its faculty effective July 2014. Professor Davidson is currently the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English at Duke University. She is also cofounder of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory), a coalition of individuals and institutions dedicated to collaborative thinking about teaching and learning innovation. She and HASTAC cofounder David Theo Goldberg, director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, lead the HASTAC/John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition. More...