In his blog, www.learninggames.wordpress.com, Daniel Livingstone described GradeGuru as the “Facebook for learning” and draws a parallel between the popular social network and the need for a academically focused platform.

“While Facebook started off as a social networking platform for students only, it never really had much of a focus on supporting learning – and has had relatively limited take up as a collaborative learning tool.

Courtesy of Shona Mullen of McGraw-Hill I had a peek at ‘GradeGuru‘ yesterday – a new social networking app focussed on note sharing and collaborative learning.

The idea is that students can submit their own notes of classes for other students taking the same/similar classes to use. Notes can be rated by readers, and points are awarded to the highest rating notes. Then (the incentive part here) points can be traded in for a fair variety of rewards… including paypal credit.”

LINK: http://learninggames.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/grade-guru-facebook-for-learning/