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We forced students to enroll in a MOOC... and they liked it! 22 Jul 2013 | 01:59 am
We made a MOOC, and it was all but easy in backstage. This MOOC was integrated in the regular curriculum of Telecom Bretagne students, so we kind of forced students to follow a MOOC. These students we...
I made a MOOC, and I survived 28 May 2013 | 02:43 am
Xavier Lagrange, Alexander Pelov and I made a MOOC introducing Cellular Networks! It is supposed to be a 20-hours course for students with a minimum background on networks. It attracted around 350 st...
MOOC and Grandes Ecoles: surfing the tsunami 29 Jan 2013 | 09:39 pm
In North-America, the development of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) is seen as a panacea, a way to fix some of the multiple flaws of the higher education system. From a buzz standpoint, this beli...
This increasingly frustrating peer review process 29 Jan 2013 | 09:03 pm
Academic people barely share their bad personal experiences related to peer reviewing. But everybody has papers rejected in conferences… and these decisions sometimes generate legitimate frustration s...
Brewing storm on cloud gaming. Are CDNs the saviors? 6 Dec 2012 | 04:01 am
Cloud gaming has the potential to become a revolution in the way games are developed and distributed. Instead of requiring end-users to buy powerful computers to play modern games, cloud gaming perfor...
Lessons learned at UWaterloo (2nd part): research organization 30 Oct 2012 | 07:30 pm
Here is the second post about my experience at University of Waterloo. After the ode to the co-operation education program, here is another positive observation related to research organization. All i...
Lessons learned at UWaterloo (first part): the Co-operative Education program 19 Oct 2012 | 08:40 pm
I spent one year at University of Waterloo in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. I will try to extract from this fruitful experience a small set of short lessons. Here is the first on...
On the pivotal role of post-doc in research groups 12 Jul 2012 | 05:53 am
A sabbatical is a great opportunity to study the internal process of other research groups. For a young European scientist like me, there is much to get from observing what American professors impleme...
About faculty positions in Europe (and especially in French Grandes Ecoles) 10 Mar 2012 | 10:35 am
I hear a lot of complaints from post-docs and near-end PhD students about the quasi-impossibility to obtain a faculty position in North America today: too few open positions and too many very strong c...
The day a rejected paper will end up in court 10 Feb 2012 | 04:43 am
Conferences are no longer nice meetings among gentlemen who care about science. They are the center of a huge competition for thousands of scientists. An acceptance in a major conference can change th...
