by Bev Wenger-Trayner | Apr 1, 2019 | All entries
“We believe students can change the world.” That’s what they say on their website… And of all the privileged insights into different worlds we get to see, this was one of the most inspiring and hopeful ones. The University Innovation Fellows program...
by Bev Wenger-Trayner | Mar 26, 2019 | All entries
Intense Online participation Together Perspectives Improvised Inspiration Friendship Personal Colorful Nourishing Laid back BEtreat workshops in Portugal It’s embarrassing to be so tardy with blog posts, but here goes… Our workshops for social learning...
by Team BE | Oct 5, 2017 | All entries, BEtreat, News
You asked for it! We’re doing it. We’ll be running a retreat for leaders of social learning, including communities of practice and networks, in Setúbal (50 kilometers south of Lisbon) from June 5 – 8, 2018. Hold the date, we’ll be putting up more information and...
by Team BE | Feb 28, 2017 | All entries, Cultivating CoPs, News, Theory
In April 2016, we visited the Academic Enhancement Center at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. We did a keynote at their Learning and Teaching Colloquium and participated in a series of activities. The team created a great video report of our...
by Team BE | Feb 28, 2017 | All entries, BEtreat, News
Last year we hosted an individual retreat for Jacquie McDonald of Southern Queensland University, Australia. She stayed with us in Grass Valley and we spent ten hours over three days, where “there was a really nice balance between the imagining and then getting down...
by Team BE | Feb 28, 2017 | All entries, News
We are working with Nancy White to do a workshop about our value-creation framework on day 2 of a KM4Dev event in Seattle. Here is more information about the event and a page for registration. Learning to make a difference: a framework The value created by learning in...