Students live on Facebook. So study tools that act like social networks should be student magnets—and maybe even have an academic benefit.
At least that’s the idea behind a new crop of Web services sprouting up across higher education. Colleges, entrepreneurs, and publishers, all drawn by the buzz of social media, are competing to market software that makes sharing class notes or collaborating on calculus problems as simple as updating your Facebook status.
“Our mission is to make the world one big study group,” says Phil Hill, chief executive of OpenStudy, a social-learning site that started as a project of Emory University and Georgia Tech. It opened to the public in September.
» via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)
(via world-shaker)
