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Mathieu Plourde

Harvard, MIT Online Courses Dropped by 95% of Registrants - 1 views

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    "Out of 841,687 registrants in 17 courses offered in 2012 and 2013 by the universities' joint EdX program, 43,196 saw the classes to conclusion, according to an e-mailed statement from the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based schools. Some of the students signed up for multiple courses, according to the statement."
Mathieu Plourde

Silicon Valley Is Now Public Enemy No. 1, And We Only Have Ourselves To Blame - 0 views

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    "Now that the Valley's companies are increasingly competing against traditional businesses, society is not so quick to give us a pass on this behavior. Take Airbnb and Uber again, both of which have attempted to avoid regulations and taxes in their fields (hotel taxes and taxi and license commission regulations, respectively). The tech press often writes these up as "disrupting" unwieldy government regulations, and to a degree, this is accurate (the best writers also mention that many of these laws were designed with consumers in mind, back when cabs and hotels were far less safe than they are now)."
Mathieu Plourde

Congrats, Millennials. Now It's Your Turn to Be Vilified - 0 views

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    "My prediction? Hold fast, millennials. This current wave of punditry will peak and then start declining six years from now. In 2020, about half of you will have turned 30. You'll no longer be young-and therefore no longer scary-and today's rhetoric about your entitlement and narcissism will evaporate. You'll be in charge. I can't imagine what you're going to say about the kids being born today."
Mathieu Plourde

University of Maine at Presque Isle drops grades for proficiencies across its curriculums - 2 views

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    The proficiency-based approach university officials described shares much in common with competency-based programs offered by institutions like Western Governors University, Southern New Hampshire's College for America and the new "Flexible Option" from the University of Wisconsin System.
Mathieu Plourde

MOOCs, Trust, and the Signature Track - #FutureEd - 1 views

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    What I have observed, though, first from initial research and now from seeing it in action in #FutureEd, is that for all the concerns I or others might have about potentially larger consequences of consenting to the level of verification and tracking-for example, making typing-pattern recognition a standard identifier-MOOCs offer something many people would not be able to get if they did not have access to those platforms.
Mathieu Plourde

Instead of ranking colleges, match them to students, proposes Ohio State University off... - 0 views

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    Rather than a standard rating system that assumes an institution will be relevant for all prospective students, regardless of what area of study they want to pursue, an Ohio State University official proposes the federal government explore adopting a business model that helps people find successful partnerships, such as Match.com and eHarmony.com.
Mathieu Plourde

Flipping the classroom isn't the answer -- let's scramble it (essay) - 0 views

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    With the scrambled classroom model, we are challenged to learn new possibilities, but also to design instruction based on principles we have known about for some time. In the scrambled classroom model, the innovation is not so much "online learning," but "human learning" supported by all that the 21st century brings to the table.
Mathieu Plourde

Study: 1-hour program can close achievement gap for first generation college students |... - 1 views

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    A one-hour program for new students that is called a "difference-education intervention." In the program, college juniors and seniors from a range of backgrounds talk about how they adjusted to college, and how they sought out resources and people to help them with decisions, issues they didn't understand and so forth.
Mathieu Plourde

LTI Standard Promises a Kinder, Gentler LMS - 1 views

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    "As LTI acceptance grows, "the LMS may actually have less functionality than it has today, but that's OK," said Instructure co-founder and Chief Learning Officer Brian Whitmer, a big LTI supporter whose Canvas LMS is leading the LTI charge. "It's not about which tool has the most features, it's about a seamless learning experience.""
Mathieu Plourde

Nasty LinkedIn rejection goes viral - 0 views

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    "Blazek's response to an e-mail and LinkedIn request from Diana Mekota, a 26-year-old planning to move to Cleveland this summer, has made the rounds on Reddit, Buzzfeed and other viral hotspots after Mekota posted it to her Imgur account. And the resulting backlash is yet another cautionary tale about how posting something mean-spirited online can come back to haunt you in the social media age."
Mathieu Plourde

Boundless Report: Ushering in a Post-Textbook World - 0 views

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    Overwhelmingly, students are open to adopting digital alternatives to traditional resources because they provide value on price, content, and portability. These are all areas where traditional textbook publishers have stopped innovating and fallen flat. Our findings suggest that students have already adapted to cost and access barriers with behaviors not supported by the traditional textbook market. We are at a new precipice in education, one where digital innovation will define the way our students work, learn, and interact - all in a post-textbook world.
Mathieu Plourde

WhatsApp's Founder Goes From Food Stamps to Billionaire - 0 views

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    ""No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow," Koum said in the post. A hand-written note on the his desk reads: "No Ads! No Games! No Gimmicks!""
Mathieu Plourde

Google Announces An Online Data Interpretation Class For The General Public - 0 views

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    "Google has launched its own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to teach the general public how to understand surveys, research, and data. Called "Making Sense of Data" and running from March 18 to April 4, the course will be open to the public and, like most MOOCs, will be taught through a series of video lectures, interactive projects, and the support of community TAs."
Mathieu Plourde

6 Ways To Use Instagram Hashtag Data to Set Social Media Campaign Goals - 1 views

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    ". By analyzing the data behind past, current and competitive Instagram hashtags, it's easy to set objectives by showing what works, monitoring progress and keeping track of audience reaction.  Whether you're interested in a high-level view or deep-dive data, the best way to set informed goals is to start with the numbers."
Mathieu Plourde

Marketers Adopt Social Media Analytics Tools - 0 views

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    The rise in social media analytics tools has satisfied marketer demand for a way to measure and gather insights from social marketing efforts.
Mathieu Plourde

Employees Are More Productive When They Can Tweet - 0 views

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    ""Having workers take small breaks on their phones throughout the day may positively influence their perceived well-being at the end of the workday," said Sooyeol Kim, one of the study's authors and a doctoral student at Kansas State University."
Mathieu Plourde

Since It Can't Sue Us All, Getty Images Embraces Embedded Photos - 0 views

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    Creating an embedding tool is a tacit acknowledgment that Getty simply can't police the use of its images to the four corners of the Internet. Craig Peters, a senior vice president at Getty, is more explicit about the futility of trying to maintain control of its images.
Mathieu Plourde

University of Baltimore to offer students free tuition for final semester if they gradu... - 0 views

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    University of Baltimore students won't have to pay for their last semester of school anymore, under one condition: They must finish on time. The program, called Finish4Free, is more than a nice gesture to cut students a break on their school debt. The university thinks that letting students finish their last semester for free will encourage more to finish on time.
Mathieu Plourde

Wireless electricity? It's here - 0 views

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    ""We're going to transfer power without any kind of wires," says Dr Hall, now Chief Technology Officer at WiTricity -- a start-up developing wireless "resonance" technology. "But, we're not actually putting electricity in the air. What we're doing is putting a magnetic field in the air.""
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