New Social Software Tries to Make Studying Feel Like Facebook - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views
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Students live on Facebook. So study tools that act like social networks should be student magnets—and maybe even have an academic benefit.
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"Our mission is to make the world one big study group,"
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some of their business plans rely on a controversial practice: paying students for their notes.
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Interesting look at a few sites and technologies targeted toward college students to "assist" them in learning and studying. The question is...are these actual beneficial to students or is the focus simply on making money for the companies producing these sites?
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Mixing social media and academic learning may be difficult