OER Policy Development Tool
Daniel DeMarte, Amanda Coolidge, Lumen Learning, 2016/08/31
This tool will help institutions and organizations develop the open access policies they wish to support. It's a bit text-heavy (for example, a one or two work selector should be used for a check-box option, not an entire paragraph) but it should serve as a useful guide. More...
Analysing writing
Doug Peterson, doug — off the record, 2016/08/29
Doug Peterson introduces us to a lovely application called FoxType, which I tried out this morning. Essentially, the idea is that it provides a number of services to help you understand your own writing. More...
Assessing soft skills in PBL
Kelli McGraw, 2016/08/29
As is so often the case, an answer to what appears to be a simple questions results in layers of complexity. Even the question itself bears examining (is it a marketing ploy? for example). It is essentially this: should problem-based learning employ an assessment grid to evaluate soft skills. More...
Charter Schools: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
John Oliver, YouTube, HBO, 2016/08/29
John Oliver examines the performance of charter schools in the United States and finds enough wrong with them to fill an 18 minute comedy video. More...
Why America’s MOOC pioneers have abandoned ship
Jonathan Rees, More or Less Bunk, 2016/08/29
Jonathan Rees citing Alex Usher is a bit like Bernie Sanders citing Ronald Reagan. There's an incongruity there. Usher's point is that MOOCs never made money. More...
The MOOC revolution that wasn't
Audrey Watters, The Daily Dot, 2016/08/29
'Tis the season to dissect the "failure" of MOOCs - or, to be specific, the rarefied Silicon Valley version of MOOCs, which is all anyone ever talks about. That narrative was that "MOOC startups Udacity, Coursera, and edX all promised that their free online courses with massive enrollment figures would 'democratize education.'" Of course that didn't happen. More...
SLOs for a Real Education
Karl Fisch, The Fischbowl, 2016/08/29
This post links to a new podcast from Michael Wesch (which I've already added to Ed Radio). Wesch is quoted: "we have to help them achieve all this within a bureaucratic structure that demands that we frame our goals in a few neat bullet points at the top of our syllabus in a section called: Student Learning Outcomes, often called SLOs." Here are the SLOs Wesch really wants to write:
Why No One Remembers Those Who Struggle for Peace
Adam Hochschild, Utne Reader, 2016/08/26
I was at the football game last night, and as usual, there was the tribute to the troops. We should reconsider who we set up role models in society. More...
En précisant les conditions pour que le CPF devienne un outil de transformation de la formation professionnelle vers l’accès à la qualification pour tous, ce bilan s’inscrit au cœur de la future réforme de la formation professionnelle.
Selon l’Igas, pour que le CPF devienne l’outil majeur de la formation professionnelle, il convient d’une part, de conforter les fondamentaux du dispositif : augmenter son volume pour conforter sa vocation qualifiante ; développer l’émancipation des usagers en valorisant les logiques de co-construction des projets de formation. Plus...
Dans la rubrique « Les dispositifs et aides financières » du site Orientation Pays de la Loire sont recensés, à ce jour, près de 252 dispositifs. Cette rubrique permet de rechercher les aides mobilisables pour toute personne qui envisage un projet de formation ou d’orientation. Voici en quelques lignes, un état des lieux complet des nouveaux dispositifs. Plus...
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