Formation Continue du Supérieur

L’AFINEF a pour mission la valorisation, la promotion et le développement économique de la filière numérique de l’éducation et de la formation professionnelle continue en France et à l’international. Elle  organise le 8 octobre 2014 les Assises de l’éducation et de la formation numériques au Grand Auditorium de l'Ecole Boulle (Paris 12ème). L'occasion de dresser le bilan des 25 propositions des précédentes Assises et de proposer les axes forts sur lesquels l'AFINEF entend porter son effort pour contribuer à faire de l’éducation et de la formation numériques une filière d’excellence.
Mercredi 8 octobre 2014 de 9 h à 17 h Ecole Boulle – 21 Rue Pierre Bourdan, 75012 Paris Grand Auditorium. Entrée gratuite sur inscription.
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U.S. online-education company Udacity said Wednesday it had raised $35 million and was offering its first "nanodegree" course, which aims to teach a skill but at a fraction of the cost of a college degree.
The credential aims to provide a way for students to prove they have mastered some sort of skill, such as data analysis or programming, without the time commitment or expense of getting a traditional college degree.
Built with AT&T Inc, the degree in web development will start at around $1,200, said Udacity, based in Mountain View, California. Udacity's biggest market is the United States, followed by India, the United Kingdom and Germany. More...

By Genna Buck. As Ph.D.s struggle to find work, some professionals are going back to school to get third and fourth degrees. Sam Sadeghi’s career seems to be on a trajectory that only goes up. The electrical engineer has been working full-time in his field since graduating with a bachelor’s degree from Ryerson University in 2004. He continued to work full-time while pursuing a master’s in power electronics, which he earned from Ryerson in 2008. The only time he didn’t work was when he took a four-month leave in 2009 to take core courses for his master’s in business administration at Wilfrid Laurier University. More...

Transnational students are five times more likely to choose the UAE as a higher education destination in 2014,than in 2009.
Dubai - Global transnational education (TNE) students are increasingly seeing Dubai as a global higher education hub akin to the USA, UK, Australia and Canada, said Dr.AyoubKazim, Managing Director of Dubai Knowledge Village (DKV) and Dubai International Academic City (DIAC), part ofTECOM Investments' Education Cluster, at a prestigious education conference in the UAE this week. More...

Friday 17th October, 11am-noon

Abstract
Higher education, once the preserve of the elite, has become increasingly universal as nations everywhere realized that knowledge workers were needed to compete in the global economy.  Borrowing from the American model, public universities expanded to meet the demand. In recent years, however, the norms and forms of the market have become increasingly important. Tuition has increased, competition for students and professors has gone international, for-profit universities enroll an ever-growing number of students.  How, for good and bad, are these changes affecting higher education?  Reference: Shakespeare, Einstein and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education (Harvard 2003).
VENUE: Barbara Falk room, Level 1, 715 Swanston Street, Carlton. More...

Monday 13th October, 1-2pm

Abstract
Supervisors hold a key role in terms of influencing students’ awareness and acceptance of academic integrity standards. The proactive ethos to academic integrity places great expectations on academic staff and raises questions about how academics themselves view their roles and responsibilities. But what do supervisors themselves think about their role in teaching academic integrity: Is it their task or not?
In this talk, I explore academics’ conceptions of their role in promoting academic integrity in two countries, namely New Zealand and Finland. This research sought common configurations of perspectives or views that can help us understand the premises based on which academics approach the tasks and roles associated with teaching academic integrity.
It found that teachers at the researched institutions are united in respecting the importance of academic integrity, but not of one mind about what it is, how it should be taught, whose responsibility it is to teach it, and whether or not to involve administrative staff in suspect cases.
VENUE: Barbara Falk room, Level 1, 715 Swanston Street, Carlton. More...

La dette étudiante des 65 ans et plus a atteint en 2013 aux Etats-Unis quelque 18,2 milliards de dollars, contre 2,8 milliards en 2005.
Difficile de rembourser une éducation extrêmement coûteuse aux Etats-Unis, y compris pour les personnes âgées, dont certaines n’ont toujours pas fini de payer leurs prêts étudiants et voient désormais leurs retraites ponctionnées par l’Etat qui veut récupérer son argent. En savoir plus...

L'apprentissage n'est plus l'apanage des futurs plombiers, boulangers et autres artisans: il forme désormais de plus en plus d'ingénieurs ou de managers et s'installe solidement dans l'enseignement supérieur où il progresse depuis plus de dix ans.
"La locomotive de l'apprentissage en France c'est quand même l'enseignement supérieur", se félicite Yves Cimbaro, président de l'Anasup, association nationale des centres de formation d'apprentis (CFA) du supérieur. Voir l'article...