"Imagine a world where you could manage your entire life from Facebook - it's not that far off!"
Blackboard, a premier course management website, announced the release of the Blackboard Sync - its first ever Facebook application.
This marriage of social networking and online learning has the potential to be a crucial step in revolutionizing the classroom experience. Penn should get with the program and seriously consider integrating its online curriculum with this application.
"This is specifically to take advantage of the fact that college students spend a tremendous amount of time on Facebook," said Karen Gage, Blackboard's vice president of product strategy, in an interview for the website Inside Higher Ed.
Downloadable to individual profiles, the application give its users the ability to "find out if you have a new assignment, grade, new forum post…without having to leave Facebook," according to the application's welcome address.
