[Air-L] CourseFeed + Facebook = Social Learning

[Gerry Mckiernan]

Colleagues/

A BreakThrough Discovery

/Gerry

CourseFeed makes online learning social. Students go to class for all
kinds of reasons - to hang out with friends, to get a degree, and to
learn - probably in that order. As more and more instruction goes online
the *real* classroom experience is left behind. We at CourseFeed
believe the best learning experiences require that groups of students be
involved, engaged, and interested. The so-called online learning
management systems of today are sterile data repositories that manage
data transfer, not learning.

CourseFeed is .... a *mash-up* between online school content and
Facebook. CourseFeed*s seamless integration with a school*s LMS
ensures classmates displayed in a CourseFeed course are the same
students enrolled in corresponding LMS course. Users see names and
photos of their classmates and are given tools to interact - making
online course work social and collaborative. CourseFeed*s alerts let
students know when a change is made in the LMS course and provide
single-click access to course content ... . 

List of Features, Links, Graphics, And More  Available At

[
http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/05/coursefeed-facebook-social-learning.html
]

OR

[ http://tinyurl.com/6pe4bs ]

Enjoy!

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

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