This blog post from The Atlantic (The Digital Education Revolution, Cont’d: Meet TED-Ed’s New Online Learning Platform by Megan Garber) gives more insight on the new TED-Ed platform. In addition to templates for content and customization, Most intriguing: Teachers can customize the lessons they create on a student-by-student basis, using the TED-Ed platform both to […] Lire la suite

The student strikes in Québec and the debate surrounding higher-education costs are but a single example of the pressures affecting universities. Here are some interesting takes on this issue: TEDxRyersonU – Dr. Alan Shepard – Think Different: Why Universities Need to Change [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC7gJ3SmDJw&w=400&h=233] You might like “Imagining the Future of the University” on the […] Lire la suite

The Chronicle of Higher Education offers a blog post about a prof wanting to fund a new course with the community based funding website Kickstarter. Lire la suite

A recent post on the Inside Higher Ed blog points to a study about measuring the value of “microblog content” or tweets. Ernesto Priego states: Using a corpus of approximately 43,000 ratings, the authors asked: “What content do Twitter users value? For example, do users value personal updates while disliking opinions?” and “Why are some […] Lire la suite

Here are a few reports that people around me have praised or hated, listed in no particular order, just to keep track of should I have a sleepless night: Think Like A Startup: a white paper to inspire library entrepreneurialism by Brian Mathews Redefining the Academic Library : Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services by […] Lire la suite

MOOCs, MITx and Udacity. Should university education be open to all and free of cost? These and related questions are explored in two recent blog post on The Guardian’s Higher Education Network blog. MITx is testing alternate delivery mechanism, with a low-cost course on electronics this semester (and more announced in the Fall). Also of […] Lire la suite

The French blog OWNI proposes an interesting summary of the state of gamification in schools ( in French, bien sûr). This post starts off with a mention of the report, submitted on April 3rd, by a member of parliament, Yvelines Jean-Michel Fourgous, called “Apprendre autrement à l’ère du numérique” – note that gamification in French […] Lire la suite

A nice visual exploration of the gamification of education : Created by Knewton and Column Five Media Lire la suite

This just in, the updated Association for College & Research Libraries ACRL Guidelines for instruction programs in academic libraries, published in the most recent issue of C&RL news. Lire la suite

The Information Literacy Section of the International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions (IFLA) announces new Media and Information Literacy Recommendations, developed with UNESCO’s Information for All Programme (IFAP). Lire la suite