Une récente recherche en psychologie dont les résultats sont publiés dans le journal Computer and Education (vol 52, issue 3) révèle que les étudiants qui téléchargent un cours en podcast (tout en ne participant pas au cours en présence) réussissent substantiellement mieux que ceux qui ont assisté au cours en présence. A lire plus en détail. Source : NewScientist

iTunes University fait des émules : Google lance lui aussi un portail : YouTube EDU.

Ce site contralise le contenu de près de deux cents collèges ou universités, pour l’instant uniqument des Etats Unis (MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Yale), excepté l’Université de Montréal.

Il est saisissant de remarquer comme les outils web 2.0 permettent le développement de compétences qui auraient été inimaginables il y a quelques années seulement.

La vidéo ci-dessous présente le travail d’étudiants du secondaire qui ont collaboré à l’élaboration de ce site web. Ils ont utilisé podcasts, vidéos, wiki et blogs. Bel exemple.

En préparant la formation Web 2.0 dans le cadre de la formation continue, je suis tombé sur un outil très pratique pour la création, le partage et la gestion des podcasts. Le tout, en ligne, simple d’utilisation et gratuit !
En quelques minutes, vous pouvez importer ou créer un podcast et le publier sur votre espace personnel dédié à cet effet.
Outil très intéressant que j’apprecie et recommance vivement.
Alors n’hésitez plus et essayez-vous à Podomatic !

Rather than simply disappearing, also known as podfading, a friendly farewell is in order…

Au revoir! Aufwiederhören! Ciao! Bye bye!

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Playing time: 3 minutes
Language: English

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If more than half of IT projects fail, then we’re working in a domain where failure is the norm. What to do about it? In his engaging talk at Flash on the Beach in December 2006, Aral Balkan takes on the fundamental question: how do we reduce the risk involved in software development, or in other words: change happens, how do we deal with it? His advice for responding to change in a low risk manner involves adopting agile development processes, with a special emphasis on extreme programming and user-centered product development. A compelling message indeed…

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Playing time: about 13 and a half minutes
Language: English

Links:

Aral Balkan’s session at Flash on the Beach:

http://flashonthebeach.com/sessions/index.php?pageid=308

Agile Manifesto:

http://agilemanifesto.org/

Aral Balkan article on User Centered Product Development:

http://aralbalkan.com/687

Standish Group report on IT project failure:

http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos_report.pdf

Aral Balkan article on process:

http://www.ariaware.com/consulting/process.php

asunit for unit testing ActionScript:

http://www.asunit.org/

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LIFT describes itself as a conference about the challenges and opportunities of technology in our society. I had the good fortune to be at LIFT in February 2007, the conference’s second edition. For this podcast, I asked some people for their impressions of LIFT, and if possible if they could sum up their experience in just 3 words…

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Playing time: about 7 minutes
Language: English and French

Links mentioned:

http://lift07.org/

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Quigli.ch is a web-based flash card application made by Rainer Steiger and Andreas Weber. It’s not your everyday flash card program though. Andreas Weber talks to us about what techniques and concepts Quigli is based on, and why doing fun things with facts helps you to learn them better.

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Playing time: about 13 minutes
Language: English

Links mentioned:
quigli.ch online flash cards and more
ppp-sin.ch public private partnership – schule im netz
telematiktage bern 5-9 march 2007

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We’ve heard about podcasting in higher education, yet most examples are recordings of entire lectures made available later as a podcast (see for example our interview with David Malan of Harvard University). We got to talk to another breed of podcasting professor, Robert Stidwill of Zurich University, who has created custom podcasts for his Biology course for veterinary medicine students. Professor Stidwill’s students get a short audio presentation of topics that he chooses based on students’ reactions during class: a learning podcast à la carte as it were.

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Playing time: about 10 and a half minutes

Language: English

Links mentioned:
OLAT learning management system

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How would you define eLearning? To find out what the term eLearning means, my colleague Rolf and I did a little just-for-fun field research outside at the student café. Since we were in Fribourg we got a nice taste of the multilingual university culture, with a mix of French, German and Swiss German, as the students told us what eLearning means to them. An interesting bit of research indeed…

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Playing time: 7 minutes
Language: English, French, German, Swiss German

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