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Drake Baer outlines some of the best ideas for for optimizing the learning process, along with the latest in productivity research.

Earlier this week the DaVinci Institute became the first organization in the world to offer Microdegrees® to the graduates of the Institute’s coding school, DaVinci Coders. People who complete courses in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Swift/iOS, and Game Development will all be on track to receive this new form of credentialing.Working as a launch-partner with Atlanta-based Edevate, the Microdegree® is new form of digital credential that certifies someone has completed 1,000 hours of learning in a p

Discussions are sometimes called the engine of an online course. Discussions provide an opportunity for students to engage with the course content, with each other, and with you—the professor—simultaneously, which means they have a lot of potential for meaningful learning and high retention.

There is no guarantee that students will really apply themselves by just creating a discussion. What you get out of a discussion assignment depends on what you put into it. Here are some tips for writing your discussion prompt, selecting your settings, and participating in the discussion.

FIGAROVOX/CHRONIQUE - Robin Rivaton explique pour Figarovox quelle influence l'innovation technologique a sur l'économie et notre vie quotidienne. Cette semaine, il rappelle que la révolution robotique va nécessiter des mutations dans notre système éducatif.

   Resources for Educator as a Design Thinker Ideo. (n.d.). 

Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit - Pfau, P. (2014). 

Rethinking Education with Design Thinking - Speicher, S. (2013).  (and more).

Given the incredible advances in technology in recent years, a debate that was once self-evident is now rather controversial, and that is: what is more important, E-learning look and feel, or learning methodology?The look-and-feel camp maintain that, given today’s incredibly short attention span, a learner will hardly get past logging in if the aesthetics of the page don’t immediately grab their attention.  On the other hand, however, the learning methodology camp maintain that good content is f

You can improve your memory with this one simple tip, writes Drake Baer.

What will it take to redesign and reinvigorate American higher education?

Salman Khan travaillait comme analyste financier lorsqu’il a commencé à donner des cours de mathématiques à ses cousins …

Recent research shows that start-up rates increase by as much as 20% when entrepreneurship lessons are provided in schools. As we educate the next wave of business owners, we should give young people first-hand experience of the link between entrepreneurship and innovation. Today’s digital natives are the most adept at using technology, but at the… 

À peine arrivée en France, la révolution des MOOCs, propulsée par les universités nord-américaines en 2008, semble déjà s'essouffler. Une perte de vitesse qui touche l'ADN même du concept. De par leur mode de production, les MOOCs ne seraient pas si ouverts qu'ils prétendent l'être. D'après Dominique Boullier, responsable de la pédagogie numérique à Sciences Po Paris, les MOOCs pour la masse favorisent en fait toujours les mêmes... Explications.