Les nouvelles technologies ont accéléré un mouvement de rupture, vers la fragmentation des enseignements: les managers veulent des cours à la carte. Les "business schools" auraient tout intérêt à s'adapter à cette demande, plutôt que de vouloir offrir un cursus complet. Par James Henderson, professeur de stratégie à l'IMD.
Tandis que les business schools s'affairent à enseigner aux futurs dirigeants économiques comment éviter la menace des technologies et des modèles d'affaires de rupture, elles font elles-mêmes face à une situation de rupture. Ce qui, du point de vue historique, était considéré comme normal - le développement et la mise à disposition, sur un campus, d'un programme en échange d'un écolage - est en train de changer rapidement. L'avènement des nouvelles technologies (analyse de l'avalanche de données) et des cours en ligne (Massive Open Online Courses, MOOCs) créent une nouvelle normalité : la fragmentation de la valeur réelle que les programmes d'enseignement peuvent fournir aux futurs dirigeants économiques. Suite...

2013 was a great year with a lot of new milestones.  From our college credit pilots, to a full Masters in Computer Science degree, to the launch of our new industry-related tracks, starting with Data Science & Big Data, we’re looking forward to new innovations in 2014. See more...

La FOAD ou enseignement à distance permet à chacun de travailler de façon autonome, à son propre rythme, quel que soit le lieu où il se trouve, notamment grâce à l'e-learning.
La formation à distance est une solution possible si vous souhaitez vous formez et que vous ne ne pouvez pas vous rendre dans un établissement d'enseignement supérieur ou dans un centre d’enseignement. Elle nécessite pour les personnes concernées de posséder au minimum un ordinateur et un accès Internet. Les stagiaires peuvent se former depuis leur domicile, dans un point d’accès à la téléformation ou dans son entreprise. Voir l'article entier...

By Gayle Christensen, Brandon Alcorn. Massive Open Online Courses can help spread quality education in India at little cost to students. India is facing major challenges in higher education. In 2007, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh noted that in almost half of India’s districts, higher education enrolments were “abysmally low” and that two-thirds of Indian universities and 90 per cent of Indian colleges were rated as below average on quality parameters. Unsurprisingly, in the face of the state failure to meet educational demands, higher education is becoming increasingly privatised with Indian elites and portions of the middle class leaving public institutions for private ones, both within India and abroad. This flight from public institutions further weakens the capacity of the state to meet the educational needs of the population, perpetuating the problem. Unfortunately, the private institutions tend to be confined to narrow professional tracks and are often plagued by weak internal governance and state regulation.
Access, quality issues
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) may be one potential solution, not to overcome India’s higher education challenges entirely, but to help alleviate some of the country’s access and quality issues in higher education. MOOCs have attracted international media attention over the last two years. Leading universities from around the world have partnered with MOOC providers, such as Coursera and EdX, to deliver high-quality online courses for free to millions of students around the world. More...

75 years ago ICDE held its first World Conference in Victoria, Canada, and the then International Council for Correspondence Education was inaugurated. It is also 25 years since the Government of Norway invited ICDE to establish its secretariat in the country. ICDE will mark these anniversaries through a series of member-driven initiatives and events. Find out how you can take part.
The first origins of ICDE can be traced back to a Canadian national conference on supervised correspondence study, and the idea of a group of pioneers to organize the first international conference for correspondence education. It is only fitting, therefore, that today's pioneers - ICDE's members, partners and friends -take a lead in marking this 75th anniversary. More...

Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) announces the 4th African Council for Distance Education (ACDE) Conference and General Assembly, which will take place in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe from 6-9 June 2014 on the theme of “Continental Integration through ODL in Africa”.
The conference sub-themes are:

1.     The philosophical context of ODL
2.     The rationale for open access and empowerment
3.     Inclusive ODL philosophy and the elitist philosophy of higher education
4.     The role of ODL in the socio-economic context of higher education.
5.     ODL: The virtual empowerment model in higher education
6.     Quality Assurance across ODL programmes. More...

Have you ever looked for good research data on the global impact of distance or online learning and discovered that this just doesn't exist?
ICDE has partnered with UNESCO, the European Commission, the International Association of Universities, the Sloan Consortium, StudyPortals and Babson Survey Research Group to begin work on this formidable task.
Context
The global landscape of post-secondary education is in a period of dramatic change. A significant driver for this has been a dramatic rise in the use of technology and the extension of the traditional campus to more learners.
Although there is clear evidence of the growth of online learning, the global data remains anecdotal or limited in scope. There has been no formal effort or process to define online learning in the global context. More...