Re: Facebook education app gets funding

oil painting — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:47:50 -0000

good job, it's so useful.

Re: Facebook education app gets funding

Tony Hirst — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:41:40 -0000

I'm part of a team that has been developing a Course Profiles Facebook app ( http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Mat... ) for a particular institution - The Open University, the UK's distance education university.

The avenue we're keen to explore is the extent to which 'public' social networks can be used to provide additional forms of support for our home study students, who are spread across the UK (and indeed, across the world).

So as with the other apps, we support 'find a study buddy' functionality, 'friends on a course' and course comment walls.

We're also offering support in the app for people taking OpenLearn open educational courses - http://www.open.ac.uk/openl... - so you can add an OpenLearn course unit to your profile if you want to. Again, the idea here is to help broker social networks amongst learners where physical colocation is all but ruled out, unlike the situation in trad universities where you sit in lectures with your peers.

On the topic of daily activity, if a distance learner makes use of the app once a week, then we max out at 14% daily active....

Re: Facebook education app gets funding

A. Smith — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:36:20 -0000

Very tough space - been there, done that.

Good luck to Inigral.

Re: Facebook education app gets funding

Pran Kurup — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:14:51 -0000

Interesting! Its hard to see how you can make money though. It's nice to be able to reach out to a number of users. How that translates to $ is a different story. Its good to see interest from investors in this space.

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