Education on the Social Web

Table of Contents

1. Education Blogs and News Sites
2. Education in Social News
3. Education in Social Bookmarking
4. Education on Twitter
5. Education Technology Startups
6. Opensource Education
7. Education on YouTube

Education Blogs and News Sites

Popular News Sites

• Inside Highered – The online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education.
• Edutopia – Success stories about what works in public education.
• Education Week – American education’s newspaper of record.
• The Chronicle – The No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
• Education News – Committed to delivering premium news content where conventional news sources do not suffice.
• New York Times Education – The education section of The New York Times
• USA Today Education – The education section of USA Today which includes college rankings and resources
• The Chronicle Education – A very rich and expansive resource for higher education news and blogs

Teacher Blogs

Student Blogs

Educational Resource Blogs

• Study Hacks – The Study Hacks blog teaches students how to do (very) well without excessive stress.
• College v2 - College v2 aims to arm students with the tricks, tips, and knowledge to put them ahead of the pack.

Education in Social News

• Edu cats and tags on digg, reddit, mixx, stumbleupon

Education in Social Bookmarking

• Edu tag on delicious, furl, magnolia, etc

Education on Twitter

• university twitter accounts, teachers, students, professors, edu start ups
• Harvard Press – Cambridge, New York, London. Publishes nonfiction in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
• Yale Press – Founded in 1908, Yale University Press is one of the oldest and largest American University Presses.
• Princeton Review – Better Scores. Better Schools.
• UCLA Newsroom – Get the latest UCLA news delivered to you right on Twitter
• Education Week – Education Week, American education’s newspaper of record.
• BusinessSchools – A financial education and Business School Twitter Stream from MoneyScience
• DEN (Discovery Educator Network) – Connecting teachers to their most valuable resource… Each other!
• Students 2.0 – We are the new horizon. We are the future of education. We are Students 2.0.
• Students – Creative resource for Media and Multimedia students.

Education Technology Startups

• find edu start ups in crunch base
• Edmodo – microblogging for students and professors only (registration required)
• CollegeNet – Social networking with financial incentives such as financial aid and scholarships
• SchoolNet Inc – Education thought leaders and practitioners investigating, discussing and debating hot topics in education.
• Academic Earth – An organization building a platform for video and other educational resources from top universities, think tanks, and conferences.
• Cramster – An online study community of students, educators and subject enthusiasts.
• Communiversity – A place for students to share their college experience so that others can learn what post-high school is really like.
• CollegeBrain – A free Web 2.0 Course Management Service (CMS).
• Campus Explorer – A college search engine and provides online search services for post secondary education.
• TeacherTube – An online community for sharing instructional videos.
• Grokit – Grockit believes that people learn better through peer-to-peer situations instead of teacher-to-student, and they are building their companies’ products around this idea.
• Big Think – A global forum connecting people and ideas.
• EduFire – Live video classes.
• italki – An online language learning community.
• LearnHub – Combines user generated content with social networking, all focused on academic education.
• LectureShare – An e-learning environment which allows instructors to manage their course content so students can easily access course information.
• Arabicollege – The leading provider of online Arabic courses using the most advanced technology.
• ePals – A collaborative learning and literacy community, focused specifically on fostering reading, writing and critical thinking skills across the curriculum.
• Supercool School – A web based system that allows users to coordinate and hold live and interactive online classes.
• Knetwit – A proprietary platform that uses the Internet to enhance the existing educational process for students and professors.
• TutorJam – An e-learning environment where K-12 students can connect with a tutor, anytime, 24/7, to get one-on-one homework help in math, science, English, and social studies.
• Livemocha – An ad-supported language learning website that allows users to subscribe and complete language courses at various levels of expertise for German, English, Spanish, French, Hindi, and Mandarin Chinese.
• Guaranteach – Provides students with quick and easy access to a variety of explanations on any given math topic.
• learnpipe – Whatever you need, if it is learning related, learnpipe will help you to connect with the companies / people who offer the products and services that you require.

Opensource Education

• open course ware, free online classes, etc

Education on YouTube

• UC Berkeley – The University of California, Berkeley is the preeminent public research and teaching institution in the nation.
• Discovery Networks – Amazing stories and experiences from the world of science, natural history, anthropology, geography, and engineering.
• TED Talks – TEDTalks shares the best ideas from the TED Conference with the world
• AtGoogleTalks – Featuring everyone from newsmakers to bestselling authors.
• CareerTV - CareerTV is a website aimed at helping college grads and undergrads get their career off on the right foot.