LE CERCLE/POINT DE VUE - Une réforme des études de médecine a été annoncée par le gouvernement, mais c'est tout le cursus qu'il faudrait repenser. Plus...Issu de la recommandation du Conseil européen du 22 mai 2017 et de la loi du 5 septembre 2018, le cadre national des certifications professionnelles est la nouvelle nomenclature, créée par le décret du 8 janvier 2019, à laquelle l’ensemble des ministères et organismes certificateurs doivent se référer pour déterminer le niveau de qualification des diplômes et titres à finalité professionnelle enregistrées au Répertoire National des Certifications Professionnelles (RNCP). Plus...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Reapproaching Nearness: Online Communication and its Place in Praxis
I was asked today about my theory of conversation. It honestly hadn't occurred to me, but of course there are theories of conversation, there are theories of everything. But I admit, my eyes begin to roll when I read, as in thsi paper, sentences like "The subject recognizes an Other, something that is epistemologically far" where the word 'Other' is capitalized. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A New Red Scare
I will have much more to say about this story line at a future date (there is the Wall Street Journal article to consider, the Chronicle article, and more) but probably not in this forum. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Gnews2RSS at VoidStar.com
A PHP script that converts Google News to RSS. If Google complains, tell them to put it in one of the links Google Toolbar produces. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Microsoft to Buy Groove Networks
Groove had its problems but it was still far ahead of anything Microsoft ever produced. That makes Microsoft's acquisition a good move for both companies. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Wealth of Knowledge Free to the World: JHSPH OpenCourseWare
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has announced the initial phase of its pilot OpenCourseWare (OCW) project. Good stuff. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Developing Self-Directed Learners
Summary of research on self-directed learning, including a useful chart matching specific work to types of self-directed learning. Most of the article addresses student motivation and linking student choice to responsibility. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Structural Holes, Part One
I torn, at least on the surface. As I stated a couple of days ago, and see increasingly in my own work, no one person can master everything in a domain; innovation is therefore the product of a group and not an individual. So the answer is to form a team, right? But I'm not about subsuming my ideas under some sort of corporate or messianic 'vision' or 'programme' - I function best when I am pursuing my own agenda and my own ideas. I want autonomy. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Google News: Customized News
The blogosphere is gaga over Google's new customized news. From where I sit, Google has now replicated the functionality of the 1998 My Netscape page - except without the RSS feeds that allow you to select your own sources. More...
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