BEAT Program description
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| Title | BEAT Program description |
| Author(s) | M. Hemphill |
| Start page | 35 |
| Date | 2004 |
| Abstract | This period of unprecedented innovation has introduced profound changes in our modes of communication, distribution, and control. At reduced costs it is offering interesting new options for networking and collaboration in circles of any size, distributed anywhere. These changes are reconfiguring our social institutions, even our traditional notions of education and community. And for those that can seize their potential they represent great opportunity for business. The Business, Education & Applied Technology (BEAT) program builds upon this understanding. BEAT is special program that takes an applied, integrated approach to IT training and development at the post-graduate level to foster learning, to accelerate technology provisioning, to spark innovation, and ultimately to breed new business opportunities. Most would agree that our mutual success rides on our investments in the key areas of community, education, innovation, and new business. This document illustrates the basic tenets of BEAT by describing its contribution in these four areas. In the process, it describes how BEAT is unique --not just in the areas to which it contributes but in the approach it takes. BEAT places an emphasis on tools, on skills development, and on an applied, integrated approach to working with technology in the educational process. The reason for this approach stems from our ongoing technological transformation and the forces of the Internet and new media. It reflects an important shift that has occurred in our ways of communicating and learning which in turn influence innovation and new business. BEAT is not a new course but a strategy to bring together students with complementary skill sets and those who have an interest in and need for the delivery of technology solutions. It recognizes that learning has become situated in action and intertwined with judgment, exploration, and instant feedback. |
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