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5 mai 2014

La Chine débarque en force sur le marché des MOOCs

Blog Focus Campus de Jean-Claude Lewandowski. L'information est passée à peu près inaperçue dans l'Hexagone : début avril, la Chine a fait une entrée en force dans le domaine des MOOCs, ces cours en ligne "massivement ouverts", qui ont été lancés aux Etats-Unis.
C'est la prestigieuse université Jiao-Tong de Shanghai - celle-là même qui a créé le fameux classement mondial des universités - qui a pris cette initiative. Elle vient en effet de fédérer 19 institutions chinoises d'enseignement supérieur - parmi lesquelles Normal University et DongHua University - pour permettre aux étudiants de suivre des cours en ligne et d'obtenir ainsi des crédits. Sa plate-forme (cnmooc.org) commence à proposer des vidéos, des questionnaires et des forums de discussion réunissant étudiants et professeurs. Un premier ensemble d'une dizaine de cours traitera notamment d'histoire de l'art, de mathématiques, de médecine chinoise traditionnelle... et même des préceptes de Sun Tzu appliqués au management. Des enseignants choisis parmi les principales pointures d'établissements de renom comme comme l'université de Pékin ou l'université de sciences et technologie de Hong Kong (HKUST) seront mobilisés. Suite...

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5 mai 2014

Apprendre autrement avec les MOOCs

Blog "Il y a une vie après le bac" d'Olivier Rollot. « Chaque semaine je m’astreins à suivre les vidéos et à répondre aux questions des profs. Je travaille également avec les autres étudiants sur les forums. C’est une vraie discipline à s’imposer 2/3 heures par semaine. » En phase de réorientation professionnelle mais sans pour autant forcément vouloir créer son entreprise, Sonia suit depuis plusieurs semaines le MOOC Effectuation : entrepreneuriat pour tous de l’EM Lyon qui compte plus de 10 000 inscrits et a été créé, comme quinze autres MOOCs avec la technologie française Unow. Suite...

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5 mai 2014

Universities 2030: Learning from the Past to Anticipate the Future

By Kris Olds. Editors' note: we're pleased to post a 'long read,' but a good and worthwhile read, consisting of a series of informed reflections about the future of the university from an historical perspective. Universities 2030: Learning from the Past to Anticipate the Future, was coordinated and co-edited by our colleague Adam Nelson (Professor, Educational Policy Studies and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison). I asked Adam to explain more about how this material came together, so let's pass it over to him! Kris Olds & Susan L. Robertson
Adam Nelson: In the spring of 2013, the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) commissioned a report to help university leaders think about the future of higher education. Read more...

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5 mai 2014

Escape From New York

By Matt Reed. Yesterday’s post on indentured servitude drew some scolding from people who thought the metaphor was overdrawn. Then, I read this.James Skoufis, a Democratic Assemblyman in New York State, is proposing making CUNY and SUNY tuition-free for students who fulfill two conditions:
1. They have to perform 125-250 hours of community service per year. This seems fine.
2. They must agree to stay in New York for five years after graduation. Read more...

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5 mai 2014

Moving Parts

By Matt Reed. Earlier this week, Kate Bowles, an Australian academic, sent me the link to this speech by Australian Minister for Education Christopher Pyne. The speech is about “setting universities free” in Australia to diversify their missions; he specifically cites the American model of teaching-focused undergraduate colleges as an example of a direction he’d like to see Australia move. On the same day, I happened across this piece by Nicholas Lemann on the idea of the university, with a particular focus on the California master plan developed by Clark Kerr in the 1960’s. Read more...

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5 mai 2014

An Open Letter to the Education System: Please Stop Destroying Students

By John Warner. Dear Education System:
Do you know whose voice I don’t hear very often in the great educational reform debate?
Students.
But why should we listen to students? They don’t know what they need, do they?
Maybe not, but they do know what’s happening to them. They know that school makes them miserable. Read more...

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5 mai 2014

The silent "e"

By G. Rendell. Now that I've spent (too much) time and effort denigrating the right-hand side of the IPAT equation (environmental Impact = Population * Affluence * Technology), it strikes me that the biggest problem isn't over there on the right (and this from someone rarely reticent to blame the Right for just about anything). Sure, Population is mathematically a non-factor and sociologically an attractive nuisance. Technology is just the handmaiden of Affluence; it can be no more until and unless society rethinks some fundamental assumptions. And Affluence is just a euphemism for consumption. Read more...

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5 mai 2014

A Slight Tangent About Time and Learning

By Eric Stoller. There is always enough time to learn new things. It's a matter of attitude and focus. For example, when I'm working with higher education practitioners on how they can effectively use social media, one of the phrases that I hear most often has to do with "not having enough time." Time availability is a slippery conundrum. It's all about individual as well as organizational variables. Read more...

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5 mai 2014

Twitter Users Tweet About the Death of Twitter

By Eric Stoller. It happens with every single communications technology, platform, and/or service. Someone says that "x" is "dead" and a firestorm of posts is ignited. In this case, the current "dead" and/or "dying" platform is Twitter. Coincidentally, most of the conversation about the death of Twitter is taking place via 140 characters...on Twitter. Read more...

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5 mai 2014

So Goes California

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By Tracy Mitrano. Remember the old jingle about “…as General Motor goes, so goes the country…”?
For privacy laws, many have borrowed it to suggest that “…as California goes, so goes the country…” It was true for data breach notification, and with the addition of new attributes that constitute those laws, for example birth date. A significant new variation relevant to higher education has just been published: Privacy and Information Security Initiative Steering Committee Report to the President. Read more...

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