Does It Work to Encourage Behaviors in Education?
In 2008, the specialist Richard Thaler explained the concept of behavioural incentives. The idea is to subtly influence a person to adopt a desired behaviour. In marketing, this often leads to a purchase. But it can be used in other areas, including education. Does gently encouraging students to study better work? It can when it is well thought out.
Philosophy, humanities and pop culture: the unexpected alliance
There are countless magazines and publications that take a tour through pop culture to deal with themes usually considered serious. If we can't explain this success, we can happily discover what pedagogical use to make of these stories, films, comics, serials or songs shared by the greatest number.
Online training: boring movies or challenging course?
What do you buy when you order an e-learning course? A lot of media... and some instructional design. Without this essential ingredient, your training is likely to bore participants and fail to achieve its goal.
The skills drain in Africa
Many students from all over the world go abroad in order to have access to better programs. However, the African continent sees a huge part of its youth leaving and never coming back. This exodus of skills is hurting sectors such as medicine and digital technologies.
Culture and school inequalities
For more than 50 years, sociologists have been questioning school inequalities, which often reproduce social inequalities and lead them to be perpetuated between generations. In a recently published book and through numerous contributions available on the Internet, Julien Netter gives us some explanations and some ways out, through the concept of "invisible curriculum."