By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Take a closer peek at this complimentary eBook, Eliminate Nonessential Content below
Helge Scherlund, 2017/01/31
Something I've learned in several decades of speaking and writing is that the space between the words is as important as the words themselves. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. “Time is the bottleneck”: a qualitative study exploring why learners drop out of MOOCs
Thommy Eriksson, Tom Adawi, Christian Stöhr, Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2017/01/27
The authors of this study interviewed participants of a couple MOOCs and asked them why they dropped out, rolling up the responses. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The coming of age of digital education
Gavin, FE News, 2017/01/27
MOOCs are growing shorter, tighter, and more popular. Against a "backdrop of growing popularity with learners, and growing recognition by employers, MOOC platforms themselves are evolving and a much more sophisticated landscape of short online courses is emerging." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The foundation of a more secure web: Google Trust Services
Noinsight, Hacker News, YCombinator, 2017/01/27
So there's something: "You can now have a website secured by a certificate issued by a Google CA, hosted on Google web infrastructure, with a domain registered using Google Domains, resolved using Google Public DNS, going over Google Fiber, in Google Chrome on a Google Chromebook. Google has officially vertically integrated the Internet." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ‘Regaining Public Trust’
Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed, 2017/01/27
As competition from non-traditional education providers intensifies, colleges and universities will depend a lot on public perception and trust. More...
CléA is developed around a common core of basic knowledge and skills that an individual, whatever their profession or sector of activity, must master to support employability and access vocational training. This common core is divided into seven areas (further broken down into 28 sub-areas and evaluated according to 108 assessment criteria):
The name CléA was chosen to avoid confusion with the Ministry of National Education’s ‘common base of knowledge and skills’ (socle commun de connaissances et de compétences) national scheme which sets out seven basic skills that pupils must have acquired by the end of compulsory education. More...
Thierry Mandon a inauguré, le 22 février 2017, le "Lieu de vie", nouveau bâtiment du CROUS dédié à la restauration étudiante et aux activités sportives situé sur le plateau de Saclay. A cette occasion, le secrétaire d’Etat chargé de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche est revenu sur les mesures engagées depuis 2012 en faveur des conditions de vie des étudiants. Gage de réussite, elles représentent un effort inédit autour de cinq axes prioritaires.
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Le portail gouvernemental Trouvermonmaster.com est désormais consultable. Les craintes que j’ai exprimées dans ma chronique du 9 novembre 2016 sont avérées : ce site va embrouiller et non éclairer les choix. Voir l'article...
Skills credentials have existed in Belgium since 2005; any person over the age of 18 who has experience, but no corresponding diploma, can have it officially recognised free of charge. Over 28 000 credentials have already been issued in 47 approved centres in Wallonia and Brussels, in 39 occupations. More...
The SKILLSNET e-bulletin February 2017 Issue has just been send to skillsnet members and published here in a pdf format. More...
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