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Record W1592234451

Le cas de la Western Governors University : L’Université virtuelle

2007· article· fr· W1592234451 on OpenAlexaff
Rachel Chouinard

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial Sciences and Governance
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesPolitical scienceSociologyPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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La Western Governors University (WGU) se veut un nouveau type d’université canalisant quatre grandes forces évolutives qui s’exercent sur le milieu universitaire : l’avènement de la virtualité, le besoin de liberté des apprenants, le respect de l’hétérogénéité et la valorisation de la créativité. Elle se démarque en s’appuyant sur le pouvoir politique et en s’alliant avec les milieux économiques pour remplir sa mission sociale d’accompagnement des collectivités et des personnes dans la voie du développement et de la prospérité. Elle propose une formation universitaire axée sur l’acquisition de compétences, reconnues par les experts d’un domaine comme essentielles à la maîtrise de leur champ d’intervention. Ses programmes, offerts à distance mais aussi sur campus par des établissements traditionnels d’enseignement supérieur, sont découpés en petites unités assemblées par domaine et sous-domaines. Ceci permet aux étudiants d’obtenir une réponse « sur mesure » à leurs besoins de formation supérieure. The Western Governors University (WGU) sees itself as a new type of university, one that channels four evolutionary forces at work in the academic sphere: the advent of “virtuality,” learners’ need for freedom, respect for heterogeneity, and the recognition of the value of creativity. It stands out by relying on political power and joining with economics circles in order to fulfill a social mission geared to accompanying communities and individuals on the road to development and prosperity. It proposes a university education that is centered on developing the skills considered by experts in the field as essential to the mastery of their own domain of intervention. WGU’s programs, which are offered at a distance as well as on campus through traditional institutions of higher education, are structured in small units grouped according to domains and subdomains of expertise. This allows students to benefit from customized solutions to their postsecondary education needs.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.031
Threshold uncertainty score0.068

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.005
Scholarly communication0.0070.004
Open science0.0000.004
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0200.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.252
Teacher spread0.243 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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