By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Students refuse to buy a single song from Napster
Heh. You may have read about some universities signing deals with Napster in an effort to curb file sharing. These agreements are foisted on students whether they want them or not, including students at the University of Rochester. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Encourage Google to Stop Undermining Education
A group of instructors has started a petition to convince Google to stop advertising essay services, asking the search engine to "stop undermining education through their policy of displaying ads that encourage plagiarism and academic fraud through the sale of pre-written and made to order term papers and essays especially when these ads are displayed on web sites that promote education". More...
Par Charles de Fréminville. Contrairement à la nourriture, le bonheur ne se stocke pas. Contrairement à la paix, il ne se décrète pas et, malgré toute la puissance qu’une IA pourrait injecter, il ne peut pas se mettre en équation. Plus...
Blog "Il y a une vie après le bac" d'Olivier Rollot. La partie « Humanité et société » est le premier pilier d’une pédagogie dans la logique du « continuum » classe préparatoire / Grande école. Un apport de culture générale qui doit aussi être bénéfique pour les étudiants issus de DUT, licence professionnelle, prépas ECT, prépas ATS… qui en ont moins bénéficié pendant leur cursus. Plus...
Vous ne vous rappelez pas le nom des deux éléments que Marie Curie a découvert ? Ou qui a remporté les élections au Royaume-Uni en 1945 ? Ou encore à combien d’années-lumière le soleil se trouve de la terre ? C’est simple, demandez-le à Google. Plus...
By Eric Stoller. My thoughts on Amazon Alexa (and other voice-based 'assistants' - Google Assistant, Apple Siri, etc) have ebbed and flowed. Initially, I thought they were a bit clunky and not very useful. Eventually I slid towards an "experiment and see" kind of attitude. I even purchased an Amazon Echo device whilst writing a blog post about the topic. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education will combine to create one giant education publisher focused on digital content. Observers aren’t convinced that’s a good thing for students. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. When an Arizona State professor accused the university of an unethical partnership with Cengage, the university denied it received grants from the company. But there was a financial relationship that wasn't revealed at the time. Students seek more details. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Dartmouth and the University of Virginia will leave the application that was set up with fanfare as an alternative to the Common App. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Full-time M.B.A. programs may be holding their own; for those seeking to study outside their home country, U.S. is losing ground to western Europe. More...
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