Ultra-connectée, collaborative et co-créatrice, la génération Z va bientôt représenter 20 % de la population active en France. Si les Y ont d’ores et déjà bousculé les codes du management, le processus devrait s'accélérer avec les Z. Plus...
Moins diplômés, mais innovants et mobiles, les Z arrivent !
Par Joëlle Brunet-Labbez. Depuis une dizaine d’années, bien tard comparé au monde anglo-saxon, le "management multigénérationnel" interroge les professionnels RH et les managers français. Avec une question centrale qui est celle de la fidélisation des jeunes générations. Plus...
La gestion des Millennials, un faux défi managérial ?
Par Déborah Romain-Delacour. Quatre générations se côtoient sur le marché du travail dont les Millennials, supposés se différencier des autres générations, et représenter en 2025, 75% de la main-d’œuvre mondiale [1]. Pourtant, de récentes recherches montrent que ces générations sont en réalité assez semblables. Plus...
Are you doing all you can to support first-generation college students?
With college accessibility front and center, many institutions are actively seeking ways to support first-generation college students, and a report from NASPA and The Suder Foundation offers a comprehensive look at the best practices among colleges and universities supporting first-generation students. More...
Working Across Generations
When we started our blog here at UVenus, we were really focused on the experience of being the next generation of female managers, Gen X women working among Baby Boomers and a few Traditionalists. As the years have gone by, a new group, the Millennials have joined us in the workforce (and even a handful of Generation Z student workers). More...
Are Colleges Ready for Generation Z?
By Steven Mintz. As Generation Z, the cohort born in the mid- and late-1990s and early 2000s, has begun to arrive on college campuses, we might ask: Are our campuses ready?
Facile generalizations, superficial stereotypes, and pejorative caricatures about Generation Z abound. That they can’t live without their digital devices. That they’re hooked on digital entertainment and social media. That they’re entitled, self-absorbed narcissists and overly delicate, fragile flowers. More...
Wide Open: Open Source Methods and Their Future Potential
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Wide Open: Open Source Methods and Their Future Potential
The authors of this longish essay (it's listed as a 'book' on the web page) look at "wider applications and potential of the open source idea." Good list of characteristics of open sourc e(p.17) - most people, when they think of open source, think of free software, but as the authors point out, the methodology of sofwtare development becomes something different. For example, it includes the vetting of participants only after they've started to contribute. More...
Educating the Net Generation
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Educating the Net Generation
I read the EDUCAUSE online book, "Educating the Net Generation" through the course of the week. I had highlighted one paper, the final piece in the book, by Chris Dede, giving it a lukewarm review. My feelings about the work as a whole are similar. More...
Learning technology through generations – Paper Summary
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Learning technology through generations – Paper Summary
Anne Strethewey, Even Elmo's Got a Mobile, Aug 01, 2014
Overview of the development of e-learning through three 'generations' summarizing Terry Anderson and Jon Dron’s 2012 EURODL article, ‘Learning technology through three generations of technology enhanced distance education pedagogy’. My own take on the same idea is in my e-Learning Generations article, presented originally in Clare, New Brunswick. More...