Quelle(s) stratégie(s) de recherche face à la nouvelle massification des données ? C’est à cette question que s’intéressera le colloque sur les enjeux de la massification des données organisé par l’AEF et l’ADBU, le 2 décembre prochain. Une problématique d’actualité à l’heure où l’on observe un accroissement sans précédent des données scientifiques sur Internet. Voir l'article...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Digital Learning Research Network (dLRN)
George Siemens, elearnspace, 2014/11/19

George Siemens writes about receiving Gates Foundation funding for the Digital Learning Research Network at the University of Texas in Arlington. The Gates Foundation is a bit like the Pulitizer Prize - the recipients claim world status, but only entries from the United States are eligible for awards. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Critical Digital Pedagogy: a Definition
Jesse Stommel, Hybrid Pedagogy, 2014/11/18
In this article Jess Stommel offers a crisp overview of digital pedagogy (with references to Friere and Giroux) and suggests that critical pedagogy:

• centers its practice on community and collaboration;
• must remain open to diverse, international voices, and thus requires invention to reimagine the ways that communication and collaboration happen across cultural and political boundaries;
• will not, cannot, be defined by a single voice but must gather together a cacophony of voices;
• must have use and application outside traditional institutions of education. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Here's How To Figure Out Everything Google Knows About You
Julie Bort, Business Insider, 2014/11/17
This is a useful article not only because it tells you what Google knows about you (which is always interesting reading) but because it gives a hint at Google's methods and how effective they are. In my case, the methods produce spotty results, which oddly makes me happy. More...

La Fédération de la Formation Professionnelle Paca-Corse et Opcalia propose un rendez-vous destiné aux DRH et responsables de formation sur le thème "Les enjeux actuels du Digital Learning - Du stage présentiel aux offres multimodales".