NASAC in collaboration with and support from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) jointly held a Consultative Forum on Open Access (OA): Towards high level interventions for research and development in Africa.
Report of the Consultative Forum in Open Access-WEB.pdf. More...

In its 2013 Statement on Enhancement of Open Access to Scientific Publications in Europe, ALLEA invited the European authorities to take measures to facilitate the transition to an Open Access (OA) model for publications in scientific journals. In their supplementary statement, the authors now encourage the European authorities to “advocate, or adopt a legislation on a copyright contract law provision allowing the authors of short scientific works resulting from a publicly-funded research to make their work available to the public free of charge following a reasonable period of time after the work was first published.” Thereby, the statement specifies, the deployment of the so-called Green OA model can be facilitated. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Beyond Instructional Design: Open Spaces and Learning Places
Stephen Downes, Oct 22, 2015, American Distance Education Consortium, Online, via GoToMeeting
This presentation focuses on the differences between a program and an environment, instructional design approaches through multi-year games, and the pedagogy of spaces and places that lend themselves to connectivist learning environment designs. More...

Hauts potentiels, leadership, kaizen, reconnaissance, bien-être au travail... Si l’on en parle autant aujourd’hui c’est parce que l’hypercompétitivité prend un lourd tribut dans l’entreprise. Et si l’open innovation pouvait renverser la donne ? L’analyse de Fabienne Goux-Baudiment*, parue dans la revue RH&M. Voir l'article...

Hauts potentiels, leadership, kaizen, reconnaissance, bien-être au travail... Si l’on en parle autant aujourd’hui c’est parce que l’hypercompétitivité prend un lourd tribut dans l’entreprise. Et si l’open innovation pouvait renverser la donne ? L’analyse de Fabienne Goux-Baudiment*, parue dans la revue RH&M