Le 17 juin, Pierrick Massiot, Président du Conseil régional, Patrick Strzoda, préfet de région Bretagne, Michel Quéré, Recteur de l'Académie de Rennes et les réseaux partenaires ont signé une convention fixant les modalités d'organisation et de mise en œuvre du service public régional d'orientation (SPRO). Voir l'article...
Formation des détenus. La Région signe une convention
Depuis le 1er janvier 2015, la Région « finance et organise la formation professionnelle des personnes sous-main de justice », conformément à la loi du 5 mars 2014. Ce transfert a fait l'objet d'une convention signée le 17 juin 2015. Voir l'article...
4 idées pour rendre vos formations plus qualitatives et déclencher le bouche à oreille
Par Medhi Coly. Vous souhaitez vous former au référencement ou vous êtes déjà inscrit à une formation SEO (Search Engine Optimization) ? Vous êtes-vous même formateur ? Quel que soit le domaine, former et être pédagogue suppose un véritable engagement pour ne pas se reposer sur ses lauriers et susciter et motiver les stagiaires. Voir l'article...
The peer review drugs don’t work
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The peer review drugs don’t work
Richard Smith, Times Higher Education, 2015/06/01
This is an interesting way to put it: "If peer review was a drug it would never be allowed onto the market." I'm not a great Cochrane Report supporter but I think they're right here. More...
I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How.
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How.
John Bohannon, i09, 2015/06/01
When you hear me grumbling about the state of educational research, it is because education is second only after weight loss as the source of conflicting data, contradictory conclusions, and outright bad research. More...
Being more human at work
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Being more human at work
Leisa Reichelt, disambiguity, 2015/05/29
Here's a good rule: "If the process insists that humans act more like machines/robots/spreadsheets than real human beings, challenge that process." I approach design that way. Designers often want people to adapt data to pre-existing categories, to follow prescribed procedures, etc. More...
Learning's blind spot
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web.Learning's blind spot
nick shackleton-jones, aconventional, 2015/05/29
This is a very nice diagram that (coincidentally) compares traditional education with what we're doing with performance support. Nick Shackleton-Jones isn't writing about LPSS but he may as well be. More...
Towards a taxonomy of Open Badges for City & Guilds
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Towards a taxonomy of Open Badges for City & Guilds
Doug Belshaw, 2015/05/29
There is nothing that is every created that somebody won't classify and order shortly thereafter. So too with badges. More...
Decolonizing Critical Participation and Writing: A Year of Open Access Publishing on the Margins
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Decolonizing Critical Participation and Writing: A Year of Open Access Publishing on the Margins
Marlana Eck, Hybrid Pedagogy, 2015/05/29
I don't know if there is necessarily a right answer here but on one hand we have the imperative of writing and publishing about what is being taught in class, and on the other hand we have the imperative of preserving student privacy. More...
A Future Twitter Full of Bots
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Future Twitter Full of Bots
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, 2015/05/29
At the rate we're going, 99 percent of Twitter traffic will be robots retweeting each other. More...