By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. When MOOCs melt down
Robert Talbert, Casting Out Nines, February 20, 2013
In the news this week is the story of a professor who quit his own MOOC half way through. The Chronicle provides one side of the story - "the problem had stemmed from Mr. McKenzie’s reluctance to loosen his grip on students who he thought were not learning well in the course" - but we read from these tweets quite a different perspective: "What he didn't like most was the students who WERE informed, but were fighting back on his rigorous rational economics model. He didn't like criticism from those knowledgeable at economics. And the text that was not free was HIS!" (Tweets combined and edited for spelling.) More...
'Social reading' the next phase of e-book revolution
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 'Social reading' the next phase of e-book revolution
Sean Prpick, Dave Redel’, CBC News, February 25, 2013
Good article on the transition from reading online (or reading digitally) to reading socially. "Rather than limiting discussion of a certain book to a digital room in e-readers such as the Kobo or Kindle, Socialbook lets all your friends in your personal digital network know what you’re reading and invites them into the conversation." There is a caveat, of course. More...
MOOCs and Digital Diploma Mills: Forgetting Our History
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. MOOCs and Digital Diploma Mills: Forgetting Our History
David Wiley, iterating toward openness, February 25, 2013
David Wiley writes, "When David Noble first published his groundbreaking critique of online education in 1998, Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education, I thought to myself 'he couldn’t be more wrong.' As it turns out he might not have been wrong – maybe Noble was simply so miraculously prescient that I couldn’t see what he saw." My comment is: Noble's error is the same today as it was in 1998: seeing commercialism in all online learning, instead of online learning as it is being used by commercial learning. More...
Firefox to follow Safari
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Firefox to follow Safari
Jeff Blagdon, The Verge, February 27, 2013
Thank you Firefox. More...
My first MOOC: diary of 1 of 24,000 students following a truly Massive Open Online Course
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. My first MOOC: diary of 1 of 24,000 students following a truly Massive Open Online Course
Aldo de Moor, Making CommunitySense, February 27, 2013
This is interesting. More...
Developer Freedom At Stake As Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights In Google Fight
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Developer Freedom At Stake As Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights In Google Fight
Sacha Labourey, Steven G. Harris, TechCrunch, March 31, 2013
A good ruling that should be upheld as the judge argues that "when there is only one way to express an idea or function, then everyone is free to do so and no one can monopolize that expression." The issue concerns Java APIs, but could refer to any APIs. More...
Un Mooc à destination des formateurs
Le Mooc "professionnaliser en formation", organisé par l’université de Rouen Normandie se déroulera du 4 mars au 27 avril 2019. Il s’adresse aux professionnels de la formation et abordera le concept de professionnalisation, ses enjeux, ses atouts et ses limites.
L’université de Rouen Normandie s’est notamment associée au Cafoc de Normandie et au Greta de l’académie de Rouen pour proposer un cours en ligne (Mooc) sur le portail numérique de l’enseignement supérieur. Consacré à la professionnalisation en formation, il est destiné principalement aux formateurs. Plus...
Lu pour vous : Les compétences du 21e siècle
Ça démarre fort et ça sonne comme un défi pour les individus soucieux, à l’ère de la culture numérique de s’adapter au monde de demain ! Dès les premières lignes, dans un style d’écriture fluide, l’auteur nous plonge dans les théories des compétences et de l’intelligence. L’objectif de cet ouvrage tend à mettre en perspective les bouleversements économiques, technologiques et sociétaux et leurs effets sur la façon de concevoir les nouvelles compétences de demain. Plus...
Médiathèque > Actualités de la certification
Une circulaire décline dans l'Éducation nationale la loi du 5 mars 2014 pour la VAE
Une circulaire du ministère de l'Éducation nationale du 30 janvier 2019 à destination des recteurs d'académie en premier lieu, précise les modalités de mise en œuvre de la Validation des acquis de l'expérience (VAE) dans l'Éducation nationale, telles que prévues notamment par le décret du...
15/02/2019
France compétences lance la procédure dématérialisée des demandes d'enregistrement de certifications et diplômes au RNCP et au Répertoire spécifique France compétences informe, dans un communiqué du 13 février 2019, du lancement d'une procédure totalement dématérialisée constituant désormais le point d'entrée unique des demandes d'enregistrement au Répertoire national des certifications professionnelles (RNCP) et au Répertoire. Plus...
MOOCs instead of open education
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. MOOCs instead of open education
Bryan Alexander, February 15, 2013
The open access declarations, notes Bryan Alexander, are now more than ten years old. So why the interest in MOOCs now, when in fact open access had been around for more than a decade? It's not simply that it's The New. More...