What are the expectations of disabled learners when participating in a MOOC?
Paul Feldman, JISC, 2018/03/06
I think this is a good question to ask but I'm really not sure it was asked properly in this report. We read, for example, that " disabled learners appear to be more interested in these subject areas: Society, History and Arts and Nature and Environment." Does that have anything to do with their self-identification as disabled learners. More...
Carl Sagan’s “Baloney Detection Kit”: A Toolkit That Can Help You Scientifically Separate Sense from Nonsense
Josh Jones, Open Culture, 2018/03/06
I link to this “Baloney Detection Kit” to contrast the accounts of critical thinking that depend a lot on source and authority. Sagan (like most scientists) isn't having it. More...
What We Can Learn From Glosses And Research Into Glosses
Philip Kerr, Adaptive Learning in ELT, 2018/03/05
A gloss is "‘a brief definition or synonym, either in (your first or second language) which is provided with [a] text’ They can take many forms (e.g. annotations in the margin or at the foot a printed page), but electronic or CALL glossing is ‘an instant look-up capability – dictionary or linked’". It's where the term 'glossary' comes from. More...
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
MIT Technology Review, 2018/03/05
I have always felt that great wealth is prima facie evidence of criminality. But this study (24 page PDF) suggests that another factor is involved: luck. It's certainly not intelligence, skill or hard work: there's no correlation between those factors and wealth. This article reportswork by Alessandro Pluchino and colleagues at the University of Catania in Italy. More...
Open Educational Resources in TVET
UNEVOC, UNESCO, 2018/03/05
Simple but very useful OER source list: " On this page you find a commented list of platforms and services that provide or give access to openly licensed content for Technical and Vocational Education and Training." Three dozen sources are listed with short descriptions. More...
Over Sharing
Garett Sloane, Ad Age, 2018/03/05
This item comes in the context of reports that people are sharing less content through social media - "social sharing of content has been cut in half since 2015." It describes the phenomenon of people quitting Facebook because of fake news, relentless advertsing, and a general lack of value in a service that isn't even a record of anything. More...
Le groupe de travail sur le développement du personnel d`Euroguidance continue avec des webinaires ! Le webinaire "Développement professionnel continu des praticiens de l`orientation - reconnaître et aborder les compétences clés en orientation professionnelle" se tiendra le 21 mars 2018, de 10h30 à 11h45 CET et sera présenté par des représentants du centre Euroguidance Serbie.
Pendant le webinaire, les participants auront l`occasion d`en savoir plus et de discuter de :
- "compétences clés des praticiens de l`orientation
- "activités et matériels qui soutiennent le développement professionnel des praticiens
- "façons de reconnaître les compétences manquantes des praticiens et de concevoir un soutien adéquat
S’inscrire au webinaire.
Vous envisagez de partir étudier ou travailler à l’étranger ? Découvrez les aides sur orientationpaca.fr
If Republicans and Democrats can agree on one priority for re-authorising the law governing higher education, it’s cutting down the lengthy application for federal student aid. Student advocacy groups hope that a student aid simplification push will include eliminating a question about drug convictions while receiving federal aid – and a corresponding section of federal law denying aid to students with such convictions, writes Andrew Kreighbaum for Inside Higher Ed. More...Universities have expressed alarm that their reputation could be damaged due to the ‘dumbing down’ of criteria required for institutes of technology to secure new technological university status, although officials in the Higher Education Authority have disputed claims criteria have been watered down, writes Carl O’Brien for The Irish Times. More...Universities across Africa are sitting on – and ignoring – a potential gold mine: their graduates. Research from the Global North, where tracking and keeping in touch with alumni is common practice for universities, shows that this reaps huge benefits, writes Peter Ngure for The Conversation. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
