YakShaving

Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Tag: informal

It’s not the future of “education”… it’s the future of “learning”, and yes there’s a difference

Yesterday, I (this is Ash writing) gave a presentation to all of the senior faculty at the IIT Stuart Business School about BettrAt and the future of informal learning. I think the presentation went pretty well (apart from me making a silly mistake with the domain and thinking that the site was down in a [...]

Foundations for a new science of [informal] learning

You know… I don’t think it’s heretical to think that we’re building an app that has some serious mass appeal, while we think that our initial/early adopters will be highschool through Gen Y. Last week, Vince sent us this great study that validates our research about interest nets. There are some great little nuggets in [...]