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4 août 2014

#Phd update: interest for older employees learning research niche

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. The quest to provide research based evidence to upgrade or at least hold on to older employees, and build a rationale to keep them in corporations based on their expertise and knowledge. EU, US, Canadian statistics are clear, we have an aging population and there is a need to keep employees at work, in meaningful work based on their expertise and knowledge.
It is a marginal option that I can chose to work on after my PhD is finalized (yes, still a lot to do, but ... reflection is a nice pastime). It feels like an interesting professional research and knowledge niche. So this subject is just something that sits in the back of my mind as I work on my heutagogy-MOOC-online learning based PhD topic, for I see a future in MOOCs or by that time enhanced, global online learning - for older, lifelong learners, including employees.
While looking for a solid research definition of 'learning episode' I came across a FREE, online book from 1971 by Allen Tough entitled 'The Adult's Learning Projects: a fresh approach to theory and practice in adult learning'. Read more...

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4 août 2014

#MOOC for development report #ict4D

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Finally the inspirational and informative report of Massive Open Online Courses for Development (MOOC4D) is published by the Penn University, and it can be downloaded here (link I got at first was not working, so added a new indirect link. Once I have retrieved the official link I will put that one in). The panel discussions are also available online here. The conference on MOOC4D was held in April 2014 and it focused on the challenges and potentials of MOOCs in developing countries. Read more...

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4 août 2014

Blogphilosophy: does #peace, pacifist education exist in #MOOC?

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. How many MOOCs focus on building peace? It seems not too many, yet we all need it. So… this blog rolled out of my keyboard.

The summer of war

It used to be that July and August were said to be leisure months. In Flemish: cucumber time: a time where nothing important is said or done, and life can be lived and enjoyed in simple ways.

With social media, networks and connected communities… this is no longer the case. No matter how hard I try I cannot keep war and conflict out of my mind’s eye. It is there, and it provides me with tons of anxiety for I myself feel helpless while watching the world stage as it is alight with anger and grief across multiple regions. Read more...

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4 août 2014

#CALRG14 Maseltov project and mobile incidental language learning for immigrants

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. The Maseltov project on mobile incidental learning services to support language learning and the social inclusion of recent immigrants was presented by Mark Gaved .
Particularly interested in lower education people, which has an effect on employability and all the other challenges faced by immigrants moving from their original country to other countries.
Maseltov project site: http://www.maseltov.eu/project/
Incidental learning is described as “… unintentional or unplanned learning that results from other activities”. Read more...

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4 août 2014

#OER on higher ed, corporate, personal & #development

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Thanks to my new contact Vivienne Bozalek from UWC, I got redirected to ROER4D (Open Educational Resources for the Global South or for development). She shared an interesting talk with Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. And as I was listening to this 30 minute talk, another OER movie caught my attention: Using OER for workforce development which was presented by Una Daly from the Open CourseWare Consortium. Which led to the OER use in an open course, which is (among others) done and shared by the Tompkins Courtland Community College through the Kaleidoscope project. This in term reminded my of a talk given by Stephen Downes on the MOOC of one, which in a small (but to me relevant way) links OER to personal learning environments. Read more...

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4 août 2014

#nanodegree #badges #lifelong learning thoughts

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. The new Udacity and AT&T initiative rolling out nanodegrees for people who follow specific MOOC or online courses in general has a logical and nice ring to it. The idea is simple: for all learners following a course successfully (= as indicated by the institute/corporation designing the course and its interactions/assignments/tasks), a nanodegree can be earned that illustrate immediate job skills and knowledge. This earning does cost: 200 $ per month (courses on average 6 - 12 months), but it is much cheaper then a college degree. As such Udacity goes for the corporate MOOC creation which (in part) addresses training people for specific jobs through MOOC. Smart move of course from Udacity to corner the more entrepreneurial need job/training market. And although other MOOC providers, such as Coursera do have similar tracks (i.e. specializations), Udacity seems to be a fore runner for this type of MOOCs. Read more...

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4 août 2014

#Flipped classroom streamed conference & some #history

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. With all the changes that are happening in education (more online, more access for many students) the concept of the flipped classroom has gained a lot of attention, and it attracted a lot of researchers investigating its benefits and challenges. In the last CALRG conference, I saw a presentation of one of the prolific researchers on flipped classrooms in the UK (Beatriz de-los-arcos) who was mentioning a flipped classroom conference that is happening next week. Read more...

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4 août 2014

Full Disclosure

By Michael Feldstein and Phil Hill. As you probably know, we run a consulting business (MindWires Consulting) and sometimes work with the companies and schools that we write about here. Consequently, we periodically remind you and update you on our conflict of interest policies. We do our best to avoid or minimize conflicts of interest where we can, but since our system isn’t perfect, we want you to understand how we handle them when they arise so that you can consider our analysis with the full context in mind. We value your trust and don’t take it for granted. More...

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4 août 2014

Bachelor-Abschlüsse dauern länger als geplant

Die Bologna-Reform sollte das Studium beschleunigen, doch der Bachelor wird nur selten in sechs Semestern geschafft. In Bayern, Berlin und NRW dauert es ein Jahr länger.
Sechs Semester beträgt die Regelstudienzeit beim Bachelor-Abschluss an deutschen Universitäten – aber das Studium dauert im Durchschnitt erheblich länger. Statistiken aus Nordrhein-Westfalen, Berlin und Bayern belegen dies laut einem Bericht der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung. 8,64 Semester war demzufolge der Schnitt 2013 in NRW, wo ein Viertel der deutschen Studierenden eingeschrieben ist. Mehr...

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4 août 2014

"Müssen Studenten Latein lernen?"

Von Anna K. Bernzen. Viele Lehramtsstudenten oder Doktoranden anderer Fächer brauchen ein Latinum. Wird so analytisches Denken gefördert, oder ist der Aufwand unnötig? Ein Pro und Contra.
Latein ist ein Bildungsfossil. Aber was wäre unsere Welt ohne Fossilien? Ein Paläontologe kann anhand der Versteinerungen die Geschichte des Lebens nachvollziehen. Mehr...

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