Tag: social networks

• Can Online Socializing Replace In-Person Interaction?

  5 months ago

  Kirsten Winkler in Disrupt Education

  One of the fastest growing verticals amongst edtech startups these days is definitely the social layer added on top of existing educational content.  One of the first startups in that space was OpenStudy. The startup teamed up with MIT OpenCourseWare back in September 2010 to enable students who ... Read More

• Building the Student Graph

  9 months ago

  Kirsten Winkler in Disrupt Education

  The use of social networks has became increasingly complicated over time. In the beginning, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter were all basically closed networks of early adopters and therefore filters were not necessary.  With those networks hitting the mainstream and being interconnected as you ... Read More

• How Social Learning through Implied Networks will change the Travel Experience

  11 months ago

  Kirsten Winkler in Disrupt Education

  Smart phones even more than tablets are the perfect all-in-one purpose devices. And as we are using them a bit more every day in a multitude of situations that just a couple of years ago demanded dedicated devices each, we are being trained to adopt new patterns of convenience increasingly quickly ... Read More