Myriam El Khomri et Philippe Arraou, Président du Conseil supérieur de l’Ordre des experts comptables ont signé une convention de partenariat pour renforcer leur appui aux TPE PME. Dans le cadre de ce partenariat, le Conseil supérieur de l’ordre des experts-comptables informera le Ministère sur les besoins exprimés par les chefs d’entreprise en matière de recrutement, de formation ainsi que les difficultés rencontrées. Voir l'article...
La loi pour l’artisanat, le commerce et les TPE du 18 juin 2014 (voir notre info) a prévu que la microentreprise remplacera le régime de l’autoentrepreneur à compter du 1er janvier 2016.
Ce nouveau cadre social et fiscal devrait contribuer à favoriser l’entrepreneuriat. Voir l'article...
By Phil Hill. Today Campus Technology reported that Stanford is moving to adopt Canvas as their campus-wide LMS. Previously Stanford was a founding member of Sakai, with its implementation called CourseWork. More...
By Phil Hill. Over the past few years I have increased my usage of the technology adoption curve – originating from Everett Rogers and extended by Geoffrey Moore – to explain some of the tension faced by ed tech support organizations. In a nutshell, a bigger determination of adoption patterns of pedagogical and technology-enabled changes in education is from social change issues rather than the innovation (whether purely pedagogical or tech-based) itself. More...
By Phil Hill. The University of Phoenix has a history of using its scale to develop and rely on homegrown platforms, including the adaptive learning platform branded as “Classroom”. I wrote about this investment in 2013. More...
By Phil Hill. Melissa Korn wrote an article yesterday in the Wall Street Journal giving a progress report on that Georgia Tech / Udacity MOOC degree (the master’s in computer science). More...
By Michael Feldstein. A few weeks ago, Jonathan Rees wrote a post calling out that, no matter what potential of so-called “personalized learning” for improving student outcomes, there is a potential—and a temptation—for it to be abused as a method of lowering (labor) costs in a way that also lowers educational quality and effectiveness. This is a serious and realistic concern, particularly as long as personalized learning is framed as a product rather than a set of teaching strategies. More...
By Michael Feldstein. Phil and I have written about the growing tension between the interests of Moodle HQ and a those of a couple of the bigger Moodle Partners, most notably Blackboard. There are a number of ways that this tension could be resolved, but one of the more dramatic possibilities would be a fork of Moodle. More...
By Michael Feldstein. Phil and I had a wonderful time co-keynoting the OpenEd 2015 conference. It was a hoot.
Phil and I approached our keynote as analysts because we figured that’s probably the main value that we have to offer. More...
By Phil Hill. The Chronicle has an article out today, “Can the Student Course Evaluation Be Redeemed?”, that rightly points out how student course evaluations are often counter-productive to improving teaching and learning. The article refers to a Stanford professor’s call for an instructor completed “inventory of the research-based teaching practices they use”, but most of the article centers on revised course evaluation tool from a Kansas State University spin-off (the IDEA Center). More...
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