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16 février 2016

Teaching Quality in Higher Education Tops Norway’s Government Agenda

By Elizabeth Koprowski. Isaksen and the Norwegian government have spent the last several years working with the country's education sector to restructure higher education and training and are now turning their sights on teaching and academic culture in Norway. On 12 January 2016, during the Ministry's yearly meeting with university and education leaders, Isaksen identified five areas where, if changed, would most effectively improve the quality of Norwegian higher education system. These areas included: student engagement, teaching methodologies, internationalization, academic culture, and education-career integration. More...

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16 février 2016

Report: Fresh MENA graduates not ready to work yet

High rates of youth unemployment across the MENA region have been well-documented (23% in the Middle East and 24% in North Africa, compared with the global average of 13%), a new study conducted in collaboration with Injaz Al-Arab, Bayt.com – the Middle East’s leading job site, and YouGov – a global market research leader – as a part of the Injaz Al-Arab ‘Expand Your Horizon’ initiative which attempts to combat the high levels of youth unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. More...

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16 février 2016

Germany’s science hubs win in major research revamp

By Quirin Schiermeier. Research clusters emerge as the big success of Germany’s Excellence Initiative — despite its focus on elite institutes. More...

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16 février 2016

Top universities to feature in 'Study in Japan' in Abu Dhabi

Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE), Educational Development Office Abu Dhabi-Japan will host a four-day 'Study in Japan' informational event along with traditional cultural activities in Abu Dhabi, UAE. More...

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16 février 2016

Ringgit’s plunge shatters Malaysian students’ US, UK dreams

By A. Ruban. Local students are being forced to give up on plans to study in the US and UK due to the spike in costs caused by the ringgit’s sharp devaluation, according to placement centres here.
Prior to the plunge in the value of the Malaysian currency, both countries had been the preferred destinations for local students continuing their tertiary education abroad, but continuing to do so now meant paying an average of RM70,000 more for a course in US. More...

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16 février 2016

Mapping Our Pangea

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Mapping Our Pangea
Robert Schuetz, Nocking The Arrow, 2016/02/15

Metaphors are fraught with the risk of misunderstanding, but this one is among the more imaginative I've seen recently, and the risk is far outweighed by the reward of a new way of thinking about the way we use digital technologies More...

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16 février 2016

Sentiment analysis of student blog posts

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Sentiment analysis of student blog posts
David T. Jones, The Weblog of (a) David Jones, 2016/02/15
One of the more interesting types of analytics to be developed in recent years is sentiment analytics. At the National Research Council, for example, we have developed a mechanism for detecting the sentiment of a tweet. More...

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16 février 2016

New Textbook Liberation Fund Aims to Save College Students $1 Billion

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New Textbook Liberation Fund Aims to Save College Students $1 Billion
Press Release, Market Wired, 2016/02/15
I'm not sure the target is attainable by this fund alone, but the objective is laudable. This press release announces the launch of the Textbook Liberation Fund which will provide $500,000 in "grants to faculty members or departments who want to transition their courses away from high-priced textbooks." More...

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16 février 2016

US professors aren’t getting any more accepting of online learning—but students definitely are

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. US professors aren’t getting any more accepting of online learning—but students definitely are
Amy X. Wang, Quartz, 2016/02/15
I've often said that change in learning and development will come from outside traditional institutions, not from within it. This short but telling article makes it clear why. More...

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16 février 2016

Calling out Pearson on Open Badges

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Calling out Pearson on Open Badges
Doug Belshaw, Open Educational Thinkering, 2016/02/15
There's nothing good, it seems, that commercial publishers won't spoil. The latest object of their attention is open badges. As Doug Belshaw writes in this article, Pearson is developing badging system called Acclaim that is an Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI) compatible. More...

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