By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Trend Report: Open Educational Resources 2013
Ria Jacobi, Hester Jelgerhuis, Nicolai van der Woert, SURF, March 28, 2013
This is a substantial document that "describes trends in open educational resources (OER) and open education in the Netherlands and elsewhere, from the perspective of Dutch higher education." Topics covered include not only OERs but also MOOCs, badges and learning analytics. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Buying Our Way into Bondage: The Risks of Adaptive Learning Services
David Wiley, iterating toward openness, March 28, 2013
I've never been big on adaptive learning systems because they resemble too much to me the old programmed learning texts that were essentially a series of branches and pages. David Wiley in this post offers another reason to be wary. More...
Par Mathilde Bourdat. Les nombreux commentaires au sujet de l’entretien professionnel au cours des deux dernières semaines montrent qu’il n’est pas superflu de revenir sur ce sujet. Plus...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Students and OERs: Exploring the possibilities
Lorna Campbell, Lorna’s JISC CETIS blog, March 27, 2013
This post is a summary of a presentation from Toni Pearce, vice-president (further education) for Britain's National Union of Students. I have no doubt that her comments are reflective of the opinions of students, but reading them makes me want to dissolve 'students' as a distinct category for research and opinion on learning technology and policy. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Do you see an unmotivated baby?
Steven K. Khan, University Affairs, March 27, 2013
Outstanding analysis of the use of an 'unmotivated baby' image during a presentation on learning. "In order to code this image of a baby as 'unmotivated,' various elements must be attended to and combined. The visual cues of the (pan-African) colours of the headwear, the stylized marijuana leaf, the possibly hand-rolled cigarette and the reddened droopy eyes must be combined with a cultural knowledge..." Imagine, suggests the author, what the reaction would have been had the baby been covered with stars and stripes, eagles and fast food wrappings. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Little Outliner
Dave Winer, Small Picture, March 27, 2013
"What Google Maps does for geography, outliners do for ideas." So says Paul Ford of Dave Winer's latest project, Little Outliner. On the surface the prduct is very simple, but it does some nifty things, like embedded Javascript, and local data storage. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. New Learning in Canada #oer
Jenni Hayman, March 27, 2013
I had a wide-ranging discussion earlier this week with Jenni about open educational resources, what an e-learning application would look like and where e-learning is going in general. This post summarizes her thoughts after the conversation, and I think it reflects the tenor of our discussion quite well. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Attention Nonprofit #datanerds
Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog, March 27, 2013
I wondered about this. "Updates from Google's service, which pledges to notify users every time new search results appear for any keyword they might like to track, have trickled to a halt in recent months." Beth Kanter follows the logic. More...
Les résultats de cette enquête menée auprès de 5 337 stagiaires six mois après leur formation et présentés dans cette étude permettent d’apporter un éclairage sur ce sujet. Il en ressort que la nature du dispositif influe fortement sur le retour à l’emploi mais aussi que de nombreux freins persistent, en particulier ceux liés à l’ancienneté dans le chômage, au niveau de diplôme, à l’obtention de la certification ou encore à l’âge. Plus...
Pour sa cinquième édition, le salon de l’alternance "Alternance manufacturing" innove en organisant deux journées de recrutement. La première à Angers le 25 avril et la seconde à Nantes le 2 mai 2019. Les objectifs : valoriser les métiers de la production industrielle et faire se rencontrer entreprises, organismes de formation et futurs alternants. Plus...
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