Circuits and Electronics (6.002x), which began in March 2012, was the first MOOC developed by edX, the consortium led by MIT and Harvard. Over 155,000 students initially registered for 6.002x, which was composed of video lectures, interactive problems, online laboratories, and a discussion forum. As the course ended in June 2012, researchers began to analyze the rich sources of data it generated. This article describes both the first stage of this research, which examined the students' use of resources by time spent on each, and a second stage that is producing an in-depth picture of who the 6.002x students were, how their own background and capabilities related to their achievement and persistence, and how their interactions with 6.002x's curricular and pedagogical components contributed to their level of success in the course.

On 1 January 2019, public health institutions whose operating revenues exceeded € 20 million 1 in 2014 will no longer transmit the paper in their cash flow. The dematerialisation of their budget and accounting system is, for these entities, a site with many consequent benefits: increased efficiency of processes to reduce payment delays and revaluation of trades of staff to devote to work higher value added. In addition to a legal and technical environment, public health institutions, to succeed in this large scale project, can rely on the methodological tools developed by the Tax Department and DGOS with representatives of authorizing and accounting in the hospital together under the partnering national Structure (SNP). [googletranslate_en]

Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is an online marketplace for work, where Requesters post Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) for Workers to complete for varying compensation. Past research has focused on the quality and generalizability of social and behavioral science research conducted using MTurk as a source of research participants. However, MTurk and other crowdsourcing platforms also exemplify trends toward extremely short-term contract work. We apply principles of industrial–organizational (I–O) psychology to investigate MTurk Worker job satisfaction, information sharing, and turnover. We also report the top best and worst Requester behaviors (e.g., building a relationship, unfair pay) that affect Worker satisfaction. Worker satisfaction was consistently negatively related to turnover as expected, indicating that this traditional variable operates similarly in the MTurk work context. However, few of the traditional predictors of job satisfaction were significant, signifying that new operational definitions or entirely new variables may be needed in order to adequately understand the experiences of crowdsourced workers. Coworker friendships consistently predicted information sharing among Workers. The findings of this study are useful for understanding the experiences of crowdsourced workers from the perspective of I–O psychology, as well as for researchers using MTurk as a recruitment tool. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze the history and future of service operations, with the goal to identify key theoretical and technological advances, as well as fundamental themes that can help to imagine the future of service operations in 2050. Design/methodology/approach - A review of the service operations literature was undertaken to inform a discussion regarding the role that technology will play in the future of service operations. Findings-The future of service operations is framed in terms of three key themes – complexity, orchestration, and elasticity. The paper makes three contributions to the service science literature by: reviewing key themes underpinning extant service operations research to frame future trajectories of service operations research; elaborating a vision of service operations in 2050 based on history and technology; and outlining a research agenda for future service operations. Practical implications - The case of service automation is used to provide an illustration of how the three themes converge to define future service operations, and in particular, to show how technology is recasting the role of the firm. Originality/value - Service operations in the next 30 years will be very different from what it was in the past 30 years. This paper differs from other review papers by identifying three key themes that will characterize and instill new insights into the future of service operations research.

The articles in this issue examine the causes of inequality of economic opportunity and analyze the potential for public policy to reduce it. This essay provides an overview of the topic and aims to integrate the analyses provided in the other articles. Several major themes emerge from our reading of the research on inequality of opportunity.

The number of ‘future of work’ studies, which estimate the potential impact of automation on employment, has grown rapidly in the past few years. They have, however, received very little critical attention and warrant closer examination. One cause for concern is the shortcomings of their methodological approach, which relies on measuring the technical feasibility of automating particular occupations and tasks. Doing so, however, creates an illusory sense of certainty and discounts the role of non-technical determinates behind advances in, and the utilisation of, automated technologies. Second, the way in which they frame their policy recommendations –as balancing an unfortunate trade-off between economic growth and unemployment – obscures the benefits that fuller automation may bring. This paper argues that these particular characteristics of ‘future of work’ studies invites comparison with the works of Adam Smith, who explored these issues in a closely connected, yet largely forgotten, way. First, Smith emphasised the role of non-technical determinates in technological progress and in this way paints a fuller picture of how automated technologies may develop. Second, Smith provides a normative perspective that would encourage these studies to see the potential of automated technologies to actually reconcile the apparent trade-offs.

Overeducation or decommissioning of a workforce increasingly educated is a social topical phenomenon that has attracted various research branches in the social sciences. This paper attempts to analyze the determinants of over-education.  The results we have generated reveal that women are more affected by over-education, social environment play an important role, lengthening the queue push graduates to accept a position of lesser qualification and the higher education of the dismissed are the least affected by the phenomenon. [googletranslate_en]

The construction industry worldwide is currently facing dramatic changes as a result of digital technologies. Among the technological approaches, the approach BIM (Building Information Modeling) building information modeling has received considerable attention in recent years, both on the part of researchers as industry professionals, and its growing success seems have paved the way for major paradigm shifts in industry. Faced with these changes, the traditional skills of professionals and project managers do not seem sufficient to handle the new informational perspective construction project management. New skills become necessary, embodied in new roles (BIM managers, coordinators BIM, BIM modelers, information managers, etc.) are becoming increasingly important in the projects. Some studies have investigated these new roles on a theoretical level without addressing the question of their positioning relative to traditional roles in project management and how project managers and BIM specialists are positioned over generic process proposed in the guides 'BIM implementation. This case study shows that the roles of BIM experts are not the same from one discipline to another and that these roles are not only technical roles. In addition, the sub-process information seems to crystallize around BIM managers, which tends to create two sources of leadership in a project: BIM managers and project managers. The study also reveals that practitioners find that collaborative BIM process proposed in the implementation plan BIM and project documents are too generic and there is usually a gap between these processes and those actually used in the project. [googletranslate_en]

This article assesses the effect of computer‐based technologies on employment in Australia. We find that: (i) the total amount of work available has not decreased following the introduction of computer‐based technologies; and (ii) the pace of structural change and job turnover in the labour market has not accelerated with the increasing application of computer‐based technologies. A review of recent studies that claim computer‐based technologies may be about to cause widespread job destruction establishes several major flaws with these predictions. Our suggested explanation for why techno‐phobia has such a grip on popular imagination is a human bias to believe that ‘we live in special times’.