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Social NetworkEd. Education Is To Be Socilaised

  1. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. 20,855,353 academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 5,641,636 papers and 1,532,529 research interests. Academia.edu attracts over 36 million unique visitors a month.

  2. EdCast is a personal learning network to enhance human ability to collaborate and learn across educational materials, instructors, students and employers. EdCast Knowledge NetworksTM powers social, mobile and cloud based learning for world class institutions, enterprises, governments and non-profits to enable millions of students to collaborate with each other and learn. The team has track-record of building large-scale transformational technology and are passionate about the global impact of mobile and online education. EdCast is a Stanford StartX company backed by tier 1 venture capital firms. The company is based in Mountain View, CA with offices worldwide.

  3. Edline is a Learning Community Management System that many schools use for school and class organization. It provides district, school and classroom level website support for administrators, parents, teachers and students from kindergarten through 12th grade. The firm's website states that its service is used by schools in all 50 U.S. states and has been featured in publications such as Newsweek. The firm has acquired the earlier-established competitive products of Jackson Software, the makers of GradeQuick, and Orbis Software, the makers of Easy Grade Pro.

    Edline is used in many schools aiming to have "paper-less" class and homework, thus cutting costs. The instructor/teacher can upload such material as upcoming tests, projects, homework, class expectations, and progress reports. The website mainly helps parents see if students have missed any homework. Parents or students can even e-mail teachers if any kind of help is needed. Different schools may upload varying amounts of data and information, depending on teacher preference and school requirements.

  4. Edmodo is an educational technology company offering communication, collaboration, and coaching tools to K-12 schools and teachers. The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content, distribute quizzes assignments, and manage communication with students, colleagues, and parents.

  5. Edsby is a cloud-based software application that blends social networking with class and student management. It is a learning management system intended to promote engagement between K-12 students, teachers, parents and school administrators. Edsby, originally named CoreFour, was founded in April 2010 by the three original founders and architects of the FirstClass email and groupware product used widely in education, along with a longtime co-worker. It offers K-12 school districts an array of online social learning tools–from gradebooks, attendance trackers, and parent-teacher communication features to content management and social classroom interaction–connected to their existing student information systems.

  6. eNotes is a student and teacher educational website founded in 1998, that provides material to help students complete homework assignments and study for exams. Based in Seattle, Washington in the United States, eNotes specializes in lesson plans, study guides and literary criticisms and is widely cited across the web. It also hosts active forums where students can ask educators academic questions. The website's material mainly focuses on literature and history, though the company offers a variety of different topics within the humanities. A network of over 1,000 teachers and professors contributes much of the content. It is different from other online subscription education services in that an in-house publishing team edits uploaded works mainly for grammar and formatting.

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