Business transfers in Quebec: a major challenge

2021-04-28T15:57:12-04:002018/05/08|Articles, Catherine Meilleur, Society|

Business owners who will need to sell or transfer their businesses in the next 10 years are estimated at 30,000, a figure that some say is conservative. Put this number mostly on the fact that the “baby boomers” are beginning to retire.

The decline of education

2021-04-28T15:52:40-04:002018/05/04|Articles, Doru Lupeanu, Learning|

Almost a century ago, the French poet Paul Valéry declared that: “The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be”. Looking at the education industry in general, it feels like the perception we have about our future shifts continuously, and not always for the better.

[INFOGRAPHIC] Tips for hosting successful live online sessions

2021-04-28T15:45:14-04:002018/05/02|Articles, Learning, Mylene Allard, Online|

Similar to traditional face-to-face courses, where instructor and learners interact in a physical classroom, online classes can take advantage of “live sessions” where the instructor delivers the lecture in real-time.

The fishy story of creative collaborations: defining aesthetics and getting lost in the process

2021-04-28T15:39:05-04:002018/04/23|Antonia Tripa, Articles, Learning|

Do semantics have anything to do with this? should have been the actual title of this post... Fishy? Keep reading, you will understand what I mean. This adventure all started with one simple question: Why do so many disagreements stem from the interpretation of words? In the professional setting of [...]

[INFOGRAPHIC] Neuroscience: learning in 4 steps

2021-04-28T15:34:37-04:002018/04/19|Articles, Catherine Meilleur, Learning, Neuroscience|

While there are several valid teaching methods, the latest discoveries in neuroscience have identified four factors necessary for successful learning. Compatible with the freedom and experimentation that remain important in pedagogy, these guiding factors can be integrated into various learning approaches.

Industry 4.0 and the new worker skillset explained

2021-04-28T15:31:35-04:002018/04/16|Articles, Guillaume Perron, Learning, Society, Technology|

Industry 4.0 is the next major industrial era. For context, the use of steam to power machinery brought the first industrial age, followed by mass production and assembly lines in the second and finally computer and automation in today’s industrial era. The fourth era is about connected, data-exchanging smart plants and machines.

Artificial intelligence: from manual programming to deep learning

2021-04-28T15:26:56-04:002018/04/13|Articles, Catherine Meilleur, Technology|

If artificial intelligence (AI) rhymes with "learning" today, just a few years ago things looked very different. Although it was possible to identify print characters, play chess or make medical diagnoses using logical inferences from experts, the AI at the time was, however, laborious and limited since it required manual programming.

[IN DEPTH ANALYSIS] Does a sense of community matter in online training?

2021-04-28T15:22:24-04:002018/04/05|Articles, Catherine Meilleur, Learning, Online, Research|

We are social beings: our need for belonging outweighs our need for dominance. Sharing with others and being part of a community is as fundamental to our development as it is to our survival. This social dimension is also the basis of our ability to learn, and the eLearning environment shouldn’t be a stranger to it.

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