Why do people think you can’t teach CREATIVITY? — from thoughts.siliconguild.com by Tina Seelig Excerpts: Why do people think that you can’t teach creativity and entrepreneurship? It stems from the lack of a clear vocabulary and a process for moving from inspiration to execution. … To begin, there is a hierarchy of skills, starting with […]

"The proportion of female researchers and students might be increasing in Europe, yet they remain underrepresented in scientific careers and disciplines." according to European Parliament, News. A report adopted by the women's rights committee on 14 July sets out how women could be helped to overcome the barriers preventing them from progressing in science, research and the technology sector. Check out our infographic to find out how many men and women graduated in science over the past decade.Number of science and technology graduates per 1,000 habitants aged 20-29 in the EU. F stands for female graduates, M for male graduates. View on webNeed for actionWomen might make up half the population, but they represent only 33% of European researchers, 20% of university professors and 15.5 % of heads of institutions in the higher education sector. Greek EPP membe rElissavet Vozemberg has come up with several ideas to improve the situation in the report that was adopted in committee this week:  "My report focused on further positive actions in order to challenge the glass ceiling barrier, highlighting the importance of ensuring absolute fairness in the hiring process, eliminating stereotypes or prejudices concerning the female gender and tackling women being underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math careers."What's in the reportThe report calls for improving network opportunities for female scientists at the regional, national and European level as well as for campaigns to encourage women to pursue scientific careers, especially in engineering and the technology sector. It also says the creation of gender equality plans should be considered as a precondition for access to public funding in research, science and academia and also asks for programmes to actively encourage women to continue their careers after maternity leave.Click here for more news from the European Parliament.Source: EU News

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Plagiarism detection software from vendors such as Turnitin is often criticized for labeling clumsy student writing as plagiarism. Now a set of new tests suggests the software lets too many students get away with it. Inside Higher Ed

It’s difficult to keep students engaged — and awake — when assigning them readings from long and often dull textbooks. Two researchers wanted to change that. Wired Campus

Handling Site Settings, Report Generation, and the Front/Home Page - An Interview with Michael Lanius: As promised in my last post on LMS administration, I have a second set of interview clips to share from my chat with Michael Lanius about his perspective on an LMS Administrator’s role. In this second part of a two-part […] The post Anatomy of an LMS Administrator - Part 2, Additional Roles of the LMS Administrator appeared first on Web Courseworks.

Totara recently announced the launch of Totara Cloud, which will become available later this month. If you are a small business or proprietorship who needs a corporate learning management system for a handful of people, then TotaraCloud is for you. Or perhaps you looking to implement Totara LMS for a large organization - Totara Cloud is a great to play around with the deep feature set.

10 C-Suite jobs of the future — from fastcompany.com by Jared Lindzon; with thanks to Norma Owen for posting this on her Future Workforce newsletter Step aside, chief innovation officers, and make way for chief automation officers and chief freelance relationship officers. Excerpts: With questions about the future of middle management, many believe that corporations […]

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