3 raisons de se réjouir de l’arrivée du printemps

Publié le par Yves Zieba

Le mois de mars arrive à grands pas, et avec lui le printemps. Nous vous avons préparé trois belles occasions de se rencontrer, et d’échanger, avec des séminaires à taille humaine pour pouvoir avoir des temps d’interaction privilégiés.

Pilotage avec Laurent & Hendrick

La première occasion, c’est la soirée des pilotes executifs à Genève.

Avec Laurent et Hendrick, nous vous avons préparé un programme pour parler de capital humain, de maturité financière et de cohérence stratégique. Le tarif préférentiel « Early Bird » est ouvert jusqu’au samedi 29 février, à 90- au lieu de 120- sur le lien suivant:

Pour tout savoir, et pour réserver votre place, voici le lien.

Sport et performance avec Angélique

La seconde occasion, nous vous la proposons avec Angélique Tefenkgi, avec une approche inédite de la performance et de l’état d’esprit, à travers des parallèles avec le sport de haut niveau.

Hackons la mode avec vous tous !

La troisième occasion, ce sera le samedi 21 Mars au Campus Biotech, le temps d’un hackathon sur la mode durable pendant le festival d’innovation ouverte Open Geneva. L’évènement est gratuit pour les participants, l’inscription est obligatoire sur ce lien, qui vous permettra de mettre en lumière votre profil et de découvrir les challenges que nous vous proposons de relever.

Vous pouvez aussi nous soutenir en devenant sponsor. Il suffit de me contacter pour en savoir plus.

Bref, un magnifique printemps en perspective, j’espère que nous pourrons nous voir lors de ces séminaires.

New idea, new startup ? How to evaluate your chances for success ?

Publié le par Yves Zieba

We are in the middle of the Entrepreneurship week in Geneva.

This year, it is called « Libérez vous idées » / Free up your ideas !

I have been invited to take part by the Association des étudiants en Sciences (AESc).

Being invited by the students themselves mean a lot to me, actually !

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So, on Tuesday, from 12, I will animate an interactive workshop in Geneva. Together, we will dig into the differences:

  • between science and entrepreneurship,
  • between risk taking and over-confidence
  • between scientist mindset and entrepreneur mindset
  • between design thinking, effectuation and the other 100s of ideation methods.

We will have an open discussion about the different ways of evaluating your chances for business success when you come up with a new idea.

The interactive workshop will be taking place in Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, 1205 Genève
SCIENCES III salle 1S059.

It should be good fun !

I hope we will exchange many good ideas.

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There is no credit to be won, we will just talk about you, your ideas and your motivation to turn your ideas into successul businesses.

I will use some of my latest tricks to make the session as interactive as possible.

We will share knowledge about effectuation, design thinking, and getting stakeholders to commit for you and for your idea.

It is open to everyone, it is free, and no, you do not have to have completed 3 PhDs to attend. 🙂

As a teaser, I could not think about a better way than sharing with you, Sara Sarasvathy TEDx Talk video, who invented effectuation.

I hope to see you on Tuesday and get starting assessing your ideas’s desirability, viability and feasibility.

 

Were MOOCs just a buzz ?

Publié le par Yves Zieba
We often laugh about MOOCs and pretend that they are not here to last and stay. Maybe we are hoping that the good old school system will stay as it is forever. Here are some facts and figures to get you to think twice:
  • MOOC enrolment surpassed 35 million in 2015
  • There are now about 4,200 MOOCs including courses offered by more than 500 universities
  • The major MOOC providers are increasingly focused on fee-based credentials, including those leading to academic credit or full degrees
  • Providers are also increasingly targeting high school and international students in their course offeringsimages

More students signed up for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) in 2015 than in the previous three years combined. The field of online courses became somewhat more international in its orientation during the year, and the established providers sharpened their focus on revenue generation.

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All of these trends point to a 2015 that marked an interesting turning point in the short history of MOOCs: a dramatic expansion in enrolment coupled with a stronger business footing for leading providers.

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All of these trends point to a 2015 that marked an interesting turning point in the short history of English speaking MOOCs: a dramatic expansion in enrolment coupled with a stronger business footing for leading providers.

These are some of the insights found in the latest reports on MOOC trends from Class Central, a website that aggregates MOOC course listings from providers around the world.

In a summary of high-level statistics for 2015, the number of students who have signed up for at least one course surpassed 35 million in 2015, up from an estimated 16-18 million in 2014.

Coursera was the leading provider again in 2015, accounting for nearly half of all MOOC students with an estimated user base of 17 million (seven million of which were added in the last year alone). UK-based FutureLearn, however, was the big surprise of the year. The British platform grew by 275% in 2015 and, with an estimated user base of three million, is now the third-ranked provider (by enrolment) after Coursera and edX.

This hierarchy is also visible when considering provider market share in terms of courses offered. As the following chart reflects, Coursera is again the clear leader and offered more than a third of all available MOOCs as of 2015. edX is the second-ranked provider with just over 18% of all courses. There is, however, a notable drop-off in terms of course distribution after those two market leaders: the Canvas network comes in third with 6.92% of courses, followed closely by FutureLearn at 5.68%. For French speaking courses, FUN, OpenClassroom and for spanish courses, MiriadaX are offering alternatives. NovoEd offers a useful alternative and some great courses in collaboration with IDEO.org

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