Réalisée auprès des usagers de l’ensemble des Missions Locales dans le cadre de la 3e Semaine nationale des Missions Locales, l'enquête UNML, réalisée avec l'ARDML PACA, révèle que les jeunes de 16 à 25 ans plébiscitent les Missions Locales et se disent très satisfaits de leur accompagnement. Plus...
La 3e édition de la Semaine nationale des Missions Locales s'est achevée vendredi dernier. Un premier bilan à chaud, très positif : les Missions Locales se sont mobilisées à près de 60% pour valoriser leurs actions en organisant leurs initiatives autour du thème 2018 "Vers les métiers de demain" (50% du réseau en 2017). 594 événements ont été organisés sur tout le territoire (469 en 2017, 474 en 2016). Plus...
The Future of Online Search
Report on a survey that classifies search engine users into five groups: discoverers, viewers, writers, readers and technodoers. The survey reports a surprisingly low success rate overall: only 25 percent of searches yield a usable result. More...
Nice, brisk article on how to foster innovation. Innovation is about change, and innovators can be irritating, so an organization needs to create room for it, a space where new ideas can grow. More...
DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository
The best article yet on MIT Libraries' DSpace implementation, including some good graphics that clearly illustrate the system's functionality and structure. More...
Propaganda Has a New Name - Encyclopedia Britannica
The Encyclopedia Britannica is widely used in education. But what if it is trumpeting a specific political message? That is the argument presented in this article as the author surveys a number of listings and concludes, "When (the CD and DVD version of) Britannica discusses anything that is liberal, they spend half the article criticizing and refuting it. When conservative causes are presented, there is usually not such a two-sided presentation. There is no critique of the conservative worldview and its inadequacies." Some of the items are telling. More...
elearningeuropa.info
Jeswein wrote me this morning to let me know that the European commissioner for education and culture, Viviane Reding, launched the elearningeuropa.info portal at the Learntec 2003 conference in Karlsruhe (Germany) a couple of days ago. More...
Deploying the Next-Generation Enterprise Portal
If you are still interested in portals, this article provides a good guide to planning and rolling out a centralized portal. But you may want to rethink this: "The successfully deployed enterprise portal will be the single entry point for collaboration, information dissemination and communication, application functionality and interactive capabilities within and without the corporate entity." I simply don't agree. More...
Patent Scare Hits Streaming Industry
Yet another patent shakedown is underway, this time by a small company called Acacia which claims to hold the patent for streaming media over the internet. "It's extortion," Roe said. More...
Copyright and the Web
This short paper is intended to stimukate discussion at a Commonweath of Learning online forum. The major message of the paper is that, "The education community in Canada is urging its federal government to consider an amendment to the Copyright Act to allow students and educators to make effective and legal use of publicly available Internet materials as part of a programme of learning." I don't think there should be an educational exemption. More...
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