BettrAt Archive

70:20:10

Charles Jennings, global head of learning for Reuters (known to most as the knowledge driven organization paragon), employs a useful 70:20:10 rule about organizational learning. Read all about it here. Too many learning professionals and managers are obsessed with transferring information into employees' heads, even though they know that the...
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The National Education Technology Plan and BettrAt

Earlier this month, The US Department of Education released its National Education Technology Plan. The NETP is driven by two clear goals by 2020: We will raise the proportion of college graduates from where it now stands [39%] so that 60% of our population holds a 2-year or 4-year degree. We...
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Formal vs informal education, by Joi

I keep meaning to hat-tip to startup hero, Joi for this wonderful post on Formal vs Informal education but I kept forgetting until I looked through my recent bookmarks today. The good parts: Despite my completely dysfunctional relationship with formal learning, I've been able to learn enough to run companies, give talks...
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Dr. James Paul Gee, Prof. @ Arizona State

This excellent video came across our radar by James Paul Gee, Professor at Arizona State University. We concur with his arguments here. The clip is entitled "hands on learning with video games," but it discusses a lot more that needs to happen in education besides video games. It's hard to...
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BettrAt is a wonderful place to be a dream

Last week, Chris Dixon posted this comment from Caterina Fake (of Flickr fame) that really got me thinking: "Flickr is a wonderful place to be a photograph". Makes a lot of sense. If you were a photograph, where else would you want to be? On Flickr, lots of people would...
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Let the Wild Rumpus Start

Well I finally got PHPlist working. ::shudders: If you signed up for an alpha invite, you shoulda got an email from the BettrAt team. If not, something is really wrong with PHPList. Are you surprised? Let the wild rumpus start! Reid Hoffman: If you're not somewhat embarrassed by...
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