By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Evolution of Learning Management Systems
Do learning management systems have a future? According to this article, "The trend is towards learners tracking their own learning results, using either personal learning environments or e-portfolios." So does that mean the end of the line for learning management systems? There remains room for innovation, argues the author, in personalization, "automatic generation of motivational messages", facilitating learner control, 2D and 3D environments, and service-oriented architectures. More...
"Le manager est un psy"
Le monde de l'entreprise connaît une série de transitions qui amènent tensions et contradictions : le manager doit à la fois donner envie et mettre la pression, tout contrôler et favoriser l'initiative, mobiliser ses forces et s'adapter. Plus...
Ecoles de management : emlyon ouvre son capital à des investisseurs privés
Le groupe emlyon a ouvert le capital de sa SA early makers group à deux investisseurs, Qualium Investissement et Bpifrance. Un projet impulsé par la CCI Lyon Métropole. Plus...
LMS Pricing Trends (Installed Implementations)
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. LMS Pricing Trends (Installed Implementations)
According to this chart, prices have been dropping, especially at the lower number of users (a drop of 25 percent for 500 users). And I don't think the averages (like, say, $48K for 500 users) include the cost of open source LMSs like Moodle. More...
Manager-ingénieur, des formations très prisées
Plus rarement suivi par les étudiants en management, il offre pourtant une large palette de débouchés. Le cursus, plus long, demande une forte implication. Plus...
Mode et management : des métiers à découvrir
Outre la création et la fabrication, les grandes maisons de couture et les enseignes du prêt-à-porter répondent à des impératifs commerciaux. Des achats à la gestion en passant par le marketing, voici les meilleurs parcours de formation pour intégrer les métiers du management de la mode. Plus...
Management des Systèmes d’Information : les clés pour choisir son master
Le système d’information (SI) est la colonne vertébrale de l’entreprise. La révolution internet a rendu le manager SI incontournable dans la majorité des entreprises et plus seulement dans les boites « techno ». Plus...
Managing Class Sizes (Part 2)
Let’s start with the question of the benefits of small classes. There is a massive amount of literature on this, most of which is pretty iffy methodologically. There are a couple of reasons for this. More...
Managing Class Sizes (Part 1)
One of the things that many people misunderstand about higher education is the way the economics of classrooms actually work; in particular about the relationship between enrolments, teaching complements, teaching loads, and class sizes. Today and tomorrow, I want to tease these out a bit. More...
Identity Management
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Identity Management
The educational technology community has still not come to grips with the question of identity and identification, Shibboleth notwithstanding. The perspective typically seems to be the matter of access control and authentication. But there is no user demand for limited access rights and demands that they prove who they are. Unless identification does something of worth to the user, there will be no demand for it. Moreover, there needs to be some recognition that user data, including personal information and access information, is in a certain sense the property of the user. I wouldn't want to (as this author suggests) emulate the system of credit reporting agencies. More...