Formation Continue du Supérieur

Blog Educpros de Pierre Dubois. De l’université de Metz à l’université de Lorraine : de Bazaine au mille-feuille, par Jean-Yves Trépos, professeur de sociologie, membre du Laboratoire Lorrain de Sciences Sociales (2L2S). Merci à l’auteur d’avoir accepté de livrer ses premières réflexions de sociologue sur la fusion des 4 établissements d’enseignement supérieur lorrains. Il s’agit d’un texte pour un débat. Lire également les 70 chroniques du blog sur le SUP en Lorraine. Suite...

Blog Educpros de Pierre Dubois. Samuel Bliman, professeur des universités en retraite et fidèle lecteur du blog, fait sa rentrée. Lecteur assidu de la presse anglo-saxonne, il vient de me communiquer un article de Nick Anderson et Philip Rucker, publié dans le Washington Post du 22 août 2013. Obama proposes college-rating system that could increase affordability. Le président des États-Unis est mécontent de la détérioration des études dans les Colleges, premier niveau de l’enseignement supérieur. Selon lui, l’économie de la connaissance exige une progression du nombre d’étudiants qui obtiennent un diplôme du supérieur. Mais celle-ci se heurte à un certain nombre d’obstacles dont le coût de plus en plus élevé des études (8.600 dollars en moyenne dans les Public Colleges qui ont un cycle de 4 ans) ; la conséquence en est une progression de l’endettement moyen des étudiants au terme de leurs études (26.000 dollars). Suite...

By Audrey Watters. President Obama unveiled what Techcrunch describes as a “radical education plan” that “could finally disrupt higher education.” Once you stop laughing your ass off at this breathlessly ludicrous headline (remember when the same author said that the Udacity/San Jose State deal would “end higher education as we know it”?), feel free to take a closer look at the actual details of the President's plan for higher education, which include “pay for performance,” a new ratings system that would be tied to federal financial aid, more competency-based credits, more technology, less regulation and other things that sound a heckuva lot like what’s been happening in K–12 for years now and (SHOCKING I KNOW) a lot like the Gates Foundation’s ed reform agenda. Considering that Congress seems more obsessed with voting (again) on repealing Obamacare, these plans seem likely to move forward only with executive, not legislative, action. More...

Open source learning platform Moodle announces free MOOC for educators all over the world - Course starts 1 Sep; sign up now at the Learn Moodle website (http://Learn.Moodle.net)
Get to know and learn the basics of Moodle by participating in a free online course "Teaching with Moodle: An Introduction" spread over four weeks, beginning Sunday 1 September 2013.
Moodle’s first official MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) aims to gather teachers and anyone interested in using a learning platform to enhance teaching and learning. The goal: to collaboratively learn how to use Moodle to teach courses online.
Led by Mary Cooch from Moodle HQ, Teaching with Moodle: An Introduction, is a structured course delivered using the latest Moodle release, Moodle 2.5. More...

By Melonie Fullick. Howard Rheingold, the longtime Internet commentator and UC Berkeley lecturer, uses the term “crap detection” to describe the process of determining whether online information is credible or not. What Rheingold calls “crap detection” is also known as information literacy, and in my case it was acquired partly through a degree in communication studies with an emphasis on analysing mainstream media coverage. I thought of Rheingold’s ideas, and my own mass comms background, the other day when I came across an article by Douglas Todd from the Vancouver Sun titled “The pros and cons of foreign students.” This article is taking on what is currently a hot topic in Canadian higher education. Read more...

By George Ye. In the recent decades, one of most phenomenal change in the campuses of many universities in Western countries is the sharp increase of students from China. According to a report by the Ministry of Education of China, the number of Chinese students studying abroad has increased at an annual growth rate of over 20 percent in the past a few years with an estimated 400,000 Chinese students going abroad in 2012 alone. With the significant rise in Chinese students in Canada, the pros and cons are being debated. The central issue – as Wayne Peters, president of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, pointed out recently – is that “pursuing the international students is a worthy venture but we should ensure it is being done for the right reasons.” More...

By Rick Anderson. The loss of the commercially published books and recordings held in the library’s general collection is truly unfortunate - but the loss of the archive is tragic. The tragedy of the train wreck and oil fire in Lac-Mégantic, Québec is, first and foremost, a human one, with close to 50 people killed and the homes and businesses of many survivors destroyed. But a smaller tragedy has also come to light, one that should give pause to libraries and the institutions (academic and political) that sponsor them. A recent article in Library Journal reports that one casualty of the explosion and fire in Lac-Mégantic was the village’s library and its collection, “which included more than 60,000 books, CDs, and DVDs, and a local history archive.”
The loss of the commercially published books and recordings held in the library’s general collection is truly unfortunate — but the loss of the archive is tragic. More...

By Jean-François Venne. Editorial team forced to scramble when an article about Aboriginal experiments sparks a media frenzy. When historian Ian Mosby submitted an article to the editors of the journal Histoire sociale/Social History, none of them suspected that it would create a media frenzy. A sizeable management challenge awaited them.
It was no wonder that the subject matter caught the media’s attention. In his article, Dr. Mosby, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Guelph, revealed that between 1942 and 1952, some of Canada’s leading nutrition experts, in conjunction with various federal departments, conducted experiments on Aboriginals in native communities and residential schools without their consent or that of their parents. Some children’s milk rations were cut in half for two years, while others were deprived of vitamin B1, iron and iodine, in addition to having their dental care suspended. More...

The course name is Metaliteracy MOOC. It is an open learning experience that emerges from the research of Tom Mackey and Trudi Jacobson and the metaliteracy framework they first developed in Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy in College & Research Libraries. Metaliteracy is a comprehensive open learning model that reimagines information literacy for social media environments and online communities in the 21st century. Metaliteracy is a unified framework that promotes critical thinking, participatory learning, and metacognitive reflection as interrelated and ongoing collaborative practices. Metaliteracy MOOC connects learners from the University at Albany, Empire State College, and participants from around the world. Join us for this interactive dialogue among participants and engage in conversation with scholars during our regularly scheduled Metaliteracy MOOC Talks. More...

Aiming to take education to every doorstep, Union HRD Minister M M Pallam Raju today said they intend to leverage the broadband network by embracing the 'Massive Open Online Courses' (MOOC) programme in a big way.
"...to make education more accessible, we have in the horizon MOOC, leveraging on the broadband education platform," Raju said at a function here while harping on sustainable development through such efforts. More...