Betavine Academy

The Betavine Academy will be a place where non-mobile developers can come to start their development careers with mobile technology.

We are planning to introduce the Betavine Academy in 4 phases.

Phase 1

Aggregate existing mobile technology course material, particularly focussed around “getting started”.  We will list the links for each technology.

Phase 1 now live: go to Betavine Academy

Phase 2

Introduce the Betavine Academy template for tutorials.  We will create a range of tutorials ourselves to test the concept and seek our users feedback.

Phase  3

We are planning to open up the Betavine Academy to our user community and invite our members to create tutorials themselves.  All contributions will be acknowledged on the tutorial and our members will be able to rate the effectiveness of the learning material.  The idea is to crowdsource the creation of the modules – created by the community for the community.

Phase 4

At some point in future if phase 3 is successful we will explore working with academic institutions to gain “accreditation” for our modules.  Thus our community will be able to gain a recognised qualification after completing the required modules.

 

Focus of Betavine Academy

I am keen that the Betavine Academy encourage people to consider mobile technology plus mobile entrepreneurship.

There will eventually be 3 sections of the Betavine Academy:

• technology tutorials
• business tools
• user experience concepts

I believe that in order to launch a successful business in mobile all 3 aspects must be considered and acted upon.  We will start with the technology tutorials in phase 2 and introduce the other sections in phase 3.