I traveled to Eduweb 2008 this week in Atlantic City (Pamela Michael of Imperial College London and I gave a presentation) and saw some cool new ideas for higher education and the web. One of those is SkoolPool. It’s a Facebook application that allows:
- Colleges to create profile pages within Facebook, and
- Students to create lists of schools they’re considering, and meet other people who are going to the same school.
SkoolPool was created by Academica Group based on extensive research into the activities and interests of high school students as they explore options for college, and talk to their friends about it.
Students can add the SkoolPool app for free, obviously. Once they have it they can start building their list, and searching for other Facebook users who are considering the same schools.
Schools can sign up for a free package with a simple profile page, or spend a little more for features like events, photos, news, discussion boards etc. Even more exciting is the Trendspotter Dashboard - a feature that allows schools to track student activity for their school as well as competing schools.
From everything I can see, it looks like these guys are doing it right.
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Cool, thanks.