Hackers et makers dans un monde qui bouge,… co-révolutionnaires !
Ateliers créatifs en innovation-recherche : les doctorants et les entreprises ont des choses à se dire !
MOOC : quelques erreurs à ne pas commettre
xMOOC : origins
7 Terrible Things Which Online Teachers Should Never Do on Twitter
By WizIQ. Considering these changes, we have been following the latest trends, first hand experiences of online teachers, and expert voice on Twitter for the last few months now. This rigorous and collaborative effort has helped us to produce an e-guide, How to use Twitter: The Ultimate Guide for Online Teachers. This guide keeps in mind the current needs of Twitter in 2014. This eguide help online teachers to find the answers to questions such as how to increase your Twitter engagement and reach; basic do’s and don’ts related to Twitter use; tools you can use to exploit Twitter to the maximum; how to effectively utilize the 140 characters. More...
A Super Engaging MOOC
By WizIQ. Moodle MOOC 4 (MM4) is the 4th Tri-annual Moodle MOOC on WizIQ (June, October, February) and Moodle for Teachers. MM4 started on June 1, 2014. The energy is high as the participants are actively engaged with the content, each other, and the facilitators of the MOOC. Participants are engaging in discussions on the course feed in the course area on WizIQ and on the Moodle training courses for beginners and non-beginners in the discussion forums. More...
Every man his own superprofessor?
By Jonathan Rees. In the spirit of my new anti- “the misuse of technology to destroy higher education by usurping faculty prerogatives” position, I want to discuss this Joshua Kim post about “the end of courses.” He gets into the subject by discussing George Siemens’ keynote at the edX Consortium #FutureEDU conference, and only takes issue with one of George’s points:
Where I take issue with George’s claims of what MOOCs are destroying derives from how I am seeing open online education at scale play out at my campus.
Faculty autonomy. No way. Faculty are more important than ever, and there is absolutely zero intent to influence what they will be teaching. (And I’d argue that the what, rather than the how, is the really important part of the autonomy equation. But we can debate).
I know George, and don’t know Joshua, but really that doesn’t matter because I think they’re both right. My contribution to the debate Joshua invites is going to be to explain why. If you run your own MOOC, you are indeed more important than ever. More...
Call for Participants: Magna Charta conference
Magna Charta Observatory together with Uppsala University is arranging a conference titled: “University Integrity – Society’s Benefit”. The conference takes place 18-19 September 2014 in Uppsala, Sweden.
Following keynotes are confirmed:
- Hans Rosling, Professor at Karolinska Institutet
- Teboho Moja, Clinical Professor of Higher Education at New York University
- Sijbolt Noorda, President, Magna Charta Observatory Council
In addition, the conference includes workshops and panel debates on issues such as. More...
Tips and tricks: How to get a PhD position?
A number of our students consider a research career after completing their master thesis at the Hedda Master Programme in Higher Education. For those of you who are considering this, here are some practical tips on how to proceed (but by no means do we assume this is a recipe for guaranteed success nor that this list is comprehensive). More...