By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Pre-Hire Assessment Science Revealed: Value for Employers, Value for Candidates
Josh Bersin, Bersin by Deloitte, April 3, 2013
Probably the most common question I am asked about MOOCs is what people will do for credentials if they're not getting degrees from universities. I've talked about mechanisms of direct assessment usin g available data from the open web. Now I can point to an actual instanceof that idea: pre-hire assessment. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Accreditors Without Borders
Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed, April 3, 2013
Interesting article (with a terrible world map graphic) on the question of whether U.S.-based accreditors should expand their scrutiny to institutions in other nations (what they call 'foreign'). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Rosetta Stone Acquires Online Language Company Livemocha
Business Wire, April 3, 2013
Rosetta Stone has purchased an online language learning community, moving it much more firmly in the direction of distributed social learning. MOOC providers like Coursera should take note, as it points to a community and cloud based future (like cMOOCs) rather than the old-style 'follow the lectures of experts' mode of learning. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Online Learning: Two Big Distractions
Contact North, April 3, 2013
Unattributed article from Contact North pointing to two big "distractions" that draw our focus from what's really happening in educational technology. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. At the Crossroads for Feed2JS
Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, April 2, 2013
Alan levine is looking to shut down Feed2JS, not because of the cost and the hassle (though both are substantial) but because, after ten years, it's time to move on to something else. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Windows 8 in education: Student Demos - Elizabeth
Tim Bush, Microsoft UK Schools News Blog, April 2, 2013
My new Lenovo came with Windows 8 so I've had some experience with it. But I have to confess, far from it being easier to find things, I'm still at the stage where I can't find anything (it doesn't help that the tiles are constantly changing, so there's no visual recognition happening). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Resisting the Marketisation of Learning
Rob Watson, Rob Watson Media, April 2, 2013
It's interesting. One of the predicted side-effects of treating education as a business was that the business would focus more on the customer. Though this sounds good in practice, in fact what has happened is that the new business-like education would determine that students don't have enough money, and that henceforth the customer would be the ultimate 'consumers' of the educational 'product', business and industry. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A White Boy's Observations of Sexism and the Adria Richards Fiasco
Mark Chu-Carroll, Good Math, Bad Math, April 2, 2013
There are some good observations in this column, including this: "I really, honestly believed that the teacher was treating her students (the teacher I did this with was a woman) equally. But when I counted? She was calling on boys twice as often as girls." The last team I hired was relatively balanced by gender and culture, not by preferential selection, but by consciously paying attention to bias. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Open SUNY: A Game Changer in the Making
Phil Hill, e-Literate, April 2, 2013
Overall positive coverage of an effort by the State University of New York (SUNY) to adopt and evaluate various elements of open learning in order to increase access and reduce costs. More...
Les frais d’inscription pour un cursus de thèse seront les mêmes pour les étudiants communautaires et extra-communautaires, soit 380€ par an, afin d’accroître l’attractivité des doctorats français auprès des étudiants étrangers et de valoriser la recherche produite dans les laboratoires. Plus...
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