By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Technology and the Imminent Disruption of Higher Education: Is Fear the Path to the Dark Side?
David Wheeler, Academica Forum, 2016/01/14
Good article from Cape Breton University president David Wheeler examining some of the major trends in university education today. Here's a quick summary. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ed-Tech Patents: Prior Art and Learning Theories
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2016/01/13
Good overview of some recent history regarding the (now-abandoned) Blackboard patent, as well as some more recent patents held by the Khan Academy. More...
By Carl Straumsheim. Copyright experts say U.S. Supreme Court is unlikely to take up the Authors Guild's case against Google, a decision that likely would end more than a decade of litigation. Read more...
By Jason B. Jones. Although the book didn’t quite arrive in time for New Year’s resolutions (which are junk anyway), 2016 has already seen the publication of Cal Newport’s eagerly-awaited new title, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Grand Central Publishing), which promises to offer research-driven guidelines for doing meaningful work. Read more...By Jason B. Jones. Over the years, we’ve written a lot about Markdown–the simple, human-readable language for formatting text–here at ProfHacker. Lincoln wrote an introductory post about it a few years back, and followed that up with one on Pandoc, a tool that lets you convert all manner of text documents ond another on Markdownifier, a tool that lets you grab plain text from (almost) any web page. Read more...By Jason B. Jones. Early January is definitely one of the peak conference seasons, as scholarly organizations such as the MLA, the AHA, the AAS, and others take advantage of the US winter break to convene large meetings. Read more...
By Samuel Gibbs. Atlas robot assistant from Team IHMC has a way to go before it can perform tasks nearly as effectively as humans can. More...
L’article publié sur theconversation.com évoque la relation entre le processus d’intégration des données puis, lorsqu’elles sont devenues trop encombrantes et trop coûteuses à héberger, leur externalisation vers l’informatique en nuage. Une externalisation qui suggère de bien en mesurer les coûts, les conséquences et les défis.
En savoir + :: L’implacable intégration des systèmes d’information et son impact sur l’externalisation
Retours sur la nouvelle pratique du « onboarding », processus qui consiste à accompagner l'arrivée dans l’entreprise du candidat qui vient de signer une promesse d’embauche et à le piloter au moins jusqu’à la fin de sa période d’essai. Une fonction essentielle de la gestion du recrutement encore trop souvent négligée ou sous-estimée par les recruteurs.
En savoir + :: Améliorer l'efficacité du « onboarding »
Développée par Pôle emploi, l'application La Bonne boîte permet de cibler les entreprises susceptibles de recruter en fonction du métier recherché. Voir l'article...
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