TEDxParisUniversités - Clément Delangue - Unishared / Hacking Education. UniShared - Home. RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms. Blackboard mobile is another example of how mobile and location are changing everything. I’ve been telling people that there have been three major movements on the Web. The first major movement was pages and search. The second major movement was social and interactivity. We’re seeing the third major movement now, which is the addition of mobile and location. A great demonstration of just how mobile and location are opening new opportunities and changing everything we do is Blackboard’s mobile app. What kinds of things does it do? Why is this important to pay attention to? Well, you might remember that another important company, Facebook, started on college campuses just a few years ago. This originally was run over on Building43, the place Rackspace and I discover world-changing startups and technologies.
Réponse à Richard Descoings, directeur de Sciences Po. Je lis avec intérêt cette interview de Richard Descoings, qui parle du numérique et de Sciences Po. Lors de ma carrière professionnelle dans l’informatique, j’ai toujours apprécié les personnes formées à Sciences Po, pour leur compréhension de l’équilibre entre l’approche technologique et les usages. C’est pour moi une quintessence d’un enseignement entre humanisme et technologie. C’est donc avec immense intérêt que je considère l’approche du directeur de cet excellent institut. J’avoue être surpris. Je ne vois dans ses propos rien sur la politique 2.0, rien sur l’opendata, rien sur le gouvernement 2.0. Comment peut-on alors affirmer que la France n’est pas en retard, quand on voit que ce qui va faire les hommes politiques de notre pays de demain matin ne semble même pas enseigné aujourd’hui… Je suis intrigué quand je vois dans cette interview que les problèmes de droits d’auteurs se posent comme contrainte à la diffusion d’un cours.
Higher Education Needs a Tech Makeover. Blackboard Inc, an online learning software provider, would have failed its semester at Arizona State University had it been graded on the number of outages it tallied this fall. The largest public university in the U.S. recorded 66 blackouts from May to December 2010, compared to zero in most of the previous academic year, creating a range of workflow hiccups on both administrative and student fronts. So common were the mishaps that students began using it as an alibi for not submitting assignments or completing exams, my ASU colleagues sheepishly disclosed over dinner last week. And it worked every single time. While school officials tried to figure out what or who was at fault, students resorted to submitting assignments either by hand or e-mail.
Heck of an inconvenience, right? The learning management system (LMS), which mainly sells to U.S. universities, is time-consuming and elaborate. The instructors who figured out that Blackboard is old school recommend such services themselves. TEDxParis - François Taddei - 01/30/10. News: Technologically Illiterate Students. ORLANDO -- Say you are an employer evaluating college students for a job. Perusing one candidate’s Facebook profile, you notice the student belongs to a group called “I Pee My Pants When I’m Drunk.” What is your first thought? It should not be that this student is unemployable for being an intemperate drinker, said Susan Zvacek, director of instructional development at the University of Kansas -- though that it might mean that, too. Mainly, though, it should suggest something else -- something that might be more relevant to the student’s qualifications.
“What it tells me,” Zvacek said, “is that the student is technologically illiterate.” In a session Thursday at Blackboard World, the e-learning company’s annual user conference, Zvacek proposed that the definition of technological literacy needs updating. And under such a definition, most of today’s students -- both college and K-12 -- do not pass muster, she said. "I want my students to be the ones people are working for," added Zvacek.