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12 juillet 2014

Weekend Reading: Umbrellas in Portugal Edition

By Erin E. Templeton. Happy Weekend, ProfHacker friends!
The title and image for today’s Weekend Reading comes from the Ágitagueda art festival, an annual tradition in Portugal this month that was recently featured in Bored Panda.
If you have even a fleeting interest in the digital humanities, it is well-worth your while to check out Bethany Nowviskie’s keynote address, “Digital Humanities in the Anthropocene,” from the 2014 DH Conference which just wrapped up in Lausanne, Switzerland. More...

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12 juillet 2014

Legitly Legit

By Anne Curzan. A high-school Spanish teacher from the western parts of Michigan emailed me a couple of months ago about a new word. She felt bombarded by the word legitly. “I legitly left my homework at home!” a student would say, or “I legitly bombed that quiz.” When I looked online to see if this new bit of slang was being discussed, I was surprised by the level of disdain I found. Read more...

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12 juillet 2014

‘Quality’ Time

By Ben Yagoda. Strolling about London on a recent vacation, I was gobsmacked to come upon this: The reason for my surprise was that, on my mother’s knee, I was taught that quality should not be used as an adjective but exclusively as a noun referring to a feature or characteristic of a person or thing.I haven’t been on my mother’s knee for a long time, but the injunction is still widespread. Bryan Garner’s entry on the word in Garner’s Modern American Usage reads, in its entirety: “When used as an adjective meaning ‘of high quality,’ this is a vogue word and a casualism <a quality bottling company>. More...

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12 juillet 2014

STEM Graduates Likelier to Have Jobs, but Most Don’t Work in STEM Fields

By Andy Thomason. New census data show that college graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics—the STEM fields—are more likely than other graduates to have jobs. But almost 75 percent of them don’t actually work in those fields, according to the data. More...

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12 juillet 2014

In a MOOC Mystery, a Course Suddenly Vanishes

By Steve Kolowich. A massive open online course on making sense of massive open online courses caused massive confusion when the course content was suddenly deleted and the professor started writing cryptic things on Twitter. The MOOC, called “Teaching Goes Massive: New Skills Required,” was taught by Paul-Olivier Dehaye, a lecturer at the University of Zurich. Offered through Coursera, the course had been conceived of as a meta-MOOC designed to help disoriented educators find their feet in the online landscape. Read more...

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12 juillet 2014

U. of Zurich Says Professor Deleted MOOC to Raise Student Engagement

By Steve Kolowich. The University of Zurich says it has cleared up the bizarre case of the MOOC that went missing. But the university is offering few clarifying details to the public, which has been left to piece together theories from the university’s statements and from cryptic tweets by the course’s professor about an unspecified experiment he might have been trying to conduct. Read more...

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12 juillet 2014

Can MOOCs Help Professors Teach Traditional Courses More Efficiently?

By Steve Kolowich. Using free online materials such as massive open online courses in traditional classes can help colleges teach more efficiently without harming students, according to a long-awaited report from Ithaka S+R, an education-technology nonprofit group, and the University System of Maryland. Read more...

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12 juillet 2014

11 University and Library Groups Release Net-Neutrality Principles

By Avi Wolfman-Arent. The nation’s colleges and libraries have a message for the Federal Communications Commission: Don’t mess with net neutrality. Echoing almost a decade of pro-neutrality sentiment in academe, 11 higher-education and library groups released a set of 11 principles on Thursday that promote the notion that all Internet content, regardless of origin, should be treated equally. More...

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12 juillet 2014

Tuition and Fees Rise, but Cost of Living—by Colleges’ Estimate—Falls

By Jonah Newman. As usual, the U.S. Department of Education is a bit behind when it comes to data. Published tuition and fees increased by about 4 percent at public and private nonprofit four-year colleges and by nearly 5 percent at public two-year colleges from 2011-12 to 2013-14, when adjusted for inflation, according to a new release from the National Center for Education Statistics. More...

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12 juillet 2014

Majoration de l'aide en cas de double recrutement d'un jeune et d'une senior

PROJET DE DECRET : MAJORATION DE L’AIDE EN CAS DE DOUBLE RECRUTEMENT D’UN JEUNE ET D’UN SENIOR…. ET SUPPRESSION DE l’OBLIGATION DE TRANSMISSION D’UN DIAGNOSTIC SUR L’EMPLOI DES JEUNES ET DES SENIORS

Le montant de l’aide est porté à 8 000 euros pour les entreprises qui recrutent un jeune de moins de 26 ans en CDI, et un sénior de 55 ans et plus

DIAGNOSTIC

A noter : suppression de l’obligation de transmission d’un "diagnostic sur l’emploi des jeunes et des seniors" aux Direccte pour les entreprises de 50 à 299 salariés couvertes par un accord de branche… »

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