Vice Chairman at StartEd Companies. We grow EdTech/WorkTech companies that change the world. Investments. Advisory. Events.

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Joined December 2008
If your business relies on "heroics", your underlying system is broken. open.substack.com/pub/alanto…?
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Courtesy of A16Z. Smartphone proliferation begins in 2010.
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An impressive glimpse into the future of learning and education...
Together with the Ego4D consortium, we recently released Ego-Exo4D: A diverse, large-scale multi-modal, multi-view, video dataset and benchmark. Learn more about the work ➡️ bit.ly/3R81pUX Access the dataset ➡️ bit.ly/3teP49w This work could help to advance AI models' understanding of complex human skills & enable new applications for AR systems, robotics & more.
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Another quarter of great progress helping businesses address critical skill gaps in the midst of economic change and uncertainty. We harness collective genius in a powerful way. #Udemy #Learning #Progress lnkd.in/e3BhFCDG
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Checkout my interview with Lisa Dahms from TUI Group. She provides some keen insights on leading people in today’s hybrid work environment. You will learn how one of the world’s leading travel companies develops leaders who energize teams. Thank you for…lnkd.in/e_EFt74x
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I've had so much fun hosting the Leading Up podcast. Season one is all done. Season two coming in early March. Each week I sit down with people who have achieved outsized success and significance because of their unique leadership skills. They teach…lnkd.in/gK6u9RS2
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If you want to hear how 3M leaders nurture a culture of learning to drive new innovation, listen to my latest podcast episode, where you'll hear from Samuel Ragsdale, who leads global learning & development. Listen to how Samuel deftly frames leading ver…lnkd.in/edxZABeC
Thank you to those of you who helped our new podcast, Leading Up with Udemy, debut at number 1 today on Apple Podcasts in Management. I would be forever grateful if you listened, liked, and shared our podcast! lnkd.in/gKc5SA_S Please feel free t…lnkd.in/gMHE83C7
I'm grateful to my partners Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood for their amazing contribution to the future of HR. This is Transformational. And Free. Please check it out. #hrtransformation #humancapital #hr lnkd.in/d5FN9QF
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We DO NOT need new words for online learning. How about a simple 2x2 frame? You can mashup any of these 4 any way you like. Keep it Simple
Ugh. Don’t make bichronous a word. Besides, thousands of us have been teaching online this way for at least a decade. It’s not new. Besides, how do you say that? It sounds horrible whether like bicycle or bicker. Although Bickeronous has possibilities. :) er.educause.edu/articles/202…
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According to Raj Chetty at Harvard, children whose parents are Top 1% are 77 times more likely to attend an ivy than children from bottom income quintile. a centuries old problem at elite universities. Nobody wants to fix it.
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Elite business model: invest in building research reputation to hit top of rankings; use perceived elite status to select the brightest and wealthiest; dont worry about good teaching because they have the advantages to learn something anyway and the connections to get good jobs.
Google's stealth move to capture $1 Trillion of the global education market from K-Gray
Google is rolling out a new suite of career certifications. Most interesting: they will be valued like 4-yr degrees in hiring. “In our own hiring, we will now treat these new career certificates as the equivalent of a four-year degree for related roles.”
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The Playbook for What's Next. Read it.
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Excellent.
10 tips for speaking online, to increase retention when teaching... donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.co…