Last week, the European Commission’s Xavier Prats Monné, Deputy-Director General for Education and Culture, attended the Finalists’ Workshop of the Open Education Challenge. He spoke with us about the European Commission’s priorities in education and the role of the private sector and entrepreneurship. More...
MOOCs: Nucleus for the Future of Higher Education and Lifelong Learning
This is an essay I've posted as part of a discussion on "Spatial-organizational strategies for serving the world’s (urban) majority" in Globalizing Higher Education and Research for the ‘Knowledge Economy'. The Coursera course was a joint development of the University of Wisconsin Madison and the University of Bristol and all resources are available as an archive. More...
Capacitación docente de calidad para mejorar los resultados educativos de América Latina
La calidad educativa se puede perfeccionar, acercando a través del e-learning instancias de formación a profesores y profesoras, que enfrenten la imposibilidad de acercarse a centros de formación por cuestiones geográficas o disponibilidad de tiempo. Un dato inquietante: aumenta la inversión en educación, pero no mejora su calidad.
por José Luis Lens Fernández, rector del Instituto de Educación Superior Max Weber (www.imwonline.org/). More...
My first MOOC experience (part 1)
By Nicholas Standage. In the past year or so, I have been hearing a lot about MOOCs, how they are here to eliminate entry barriers to education, how they foster networking and flexibility while learning and even how they force lecturers to improve and adapt their lectures through the continuous feedback they receive. More...
Unow
Nous vivons un changement de paradigme majeur : l'éducation perçue comme une base évolutive, qui doit être enrichie et mise à jour tout au long de la vie, et non plus comme une base figée à l'issue de la formation initiale. Dans ce nouveau contexte où apprendre à apprendre devient clé, les acteurs de l'enseignement et les entreprises doivent réinventer leurs façons d’enseigner et de former. Les MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) et les SPOC (Small Private Online Course) seront des leviers dans cette modernisation. Platform's link. More...
Open Edition
OpenEdition offre à la communauté scientifique quatre plateformes de publication et d’information en sciences humaines et sociales d’envergure internationale :
Ces quatre plateformes complémentaires constituent un dispositif d’édition électronique complet au service de l’information scientifique. Open Edition. More...
UniversitePlus
UniversitePlus is a massive open online course (MOOC) platform which aims to offer quality education from several universities across Turkey for Turkish-speaking communities. Our objective is to become a model for how we can scale learning in the Middle East. UniversitePlus. More...
iMooX
Moodle
Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments. You can download the software onto your own web server or ask one of our knowledgable Moodle Partners to assist you. Moodle Website. More...
