Posted: May 22, 2013

This is a two-day conference: June 10 - Workshops June 11 - Keynote sessions and paper presentationsSALTISE, a consortium composed of faculty from McGill University, Dawson College, John Abbott College and Vanier College, is pleased to invite you to its 2013 annual conference. The theme of this year's Conference is “Pedagogical Change in Higher Education: Building New Models of Learning and Teaching.” The conference will feature leading researchers in education, learning, and educational technology including speakers from Singapore (Manu Kapur) and Spain (Yannis Dimitriadis, GSIC, School of Telecommunications Engineering), from Ontario (Jim Slotta, UofT, OISE), as well from our local Québec network (Thérèse Laferrière, Laval University; Roger Azevedo, McGill University; Susanne Lajoie, McGill University; Bob Bernard & Vivek Venkatesh, Concordia University; Laurent Poliquin, UQAM). We look forward to you joining us June 10th for a full day of workshops, and June 11th for keynote sessions, paper and poster presentations, and networking with your pedagogical peers! To register go to: https://surveys.mcgill.ca/limesurvey/index.php?sid=14365&lang=en

Posted: May 22, 2013

This is day two of the two-day conference: June 10 - Workshops June 11 - Keynote sessions and paper presentationsTo see more details click on the event link for day 1 or visit the SALTISE website.To register go to: https://surveys.mcgill.ca/limesurvey/index.php?sid=14365&lang=en

Posted: May 01, 2013

Registration for the summer session of French conversation groups (levels 1-5), will open at noon on Monday, May 6. Courses begin Tuesday June 25 and continue to July 24, Monday to Friday from 3:45pm to 5:45pm. (no class Mon July 1) Spaces fill up fast. Don't be disappointed. Set your agenda.

Posted: Apr 22, 2013

Thursday May 9th at 7:30pmThe John Molson Executive Centre is proud to welcome Jean-Paul Isson, world-renown expert in big data and advanced business analytics to Concordia. On May 9, Isson, who is global VP business intelligence and predictive analytics at Monster Worldwide will present “Leveraging Business Analytics to Compete in the Global Market”. Co-author of “Win with Advanced Business Analytics”, Mr. Isson will also present the highlights from his 2012 Amazon best-selling book.Isson has built his global business intelligence team from the ground up and successfully conceived and implemented global customer scoring/segmentation, predictive modeling, and web mining applications building across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. By attending this session you will get strategic tips about how to increase customer retention, market share and customer profitability and how to manage your competition, in this global competitive market place propelled by the explosion of digital information. You will also discover how Monster, the global leader in the online recruitment industry, went from good to great by using business analytics.: "Leveraging Business Analytics to Compete in the Global Market".Mr. Isson will share his experience and address challenges and opportunities related to the use of business analytics and big data.For more information concerning the conference and for details on how to register, please check the event description on the JMSB Exec Centre website