Credit: Maria Raffaele/Art Staff at The Tartan

The Tartan, Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper, published an article about GradeGuru today titled, “notes making money”

“As a recent start-up, GradeGuru’s current focus is on collecting notes and rewarding its contributors with money for their notes to lay the foundation for their vision of a web 2.0 version of a study group — a collaborative learning experience online.”

“According to Carnegie Mellon student Aleksey Tigay, a junior in business administration and GradeGuru representative, ‘GradeGuru provides more ways to search and look up notes. It also places an emphasis on quality of notes so students know that they information they are receiving is going to be beneficial.’”

“A quality that separates GradeGuru from similar sites is its partnership with TurnItIn.com, a plagiarism prevention service. The GradeGuru site promises to provide students with an ‘ethically sound platform for collaborative learning.’

LINK: http://thetartan.org/2009/3/30/news/notes