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Podclass Announces Podclass Web Services (PWS) To Bring Education Into Social Networks
Posted on July 29th, 2008 in Facebook, Podclass News | No Comments »
Today we are excited to announce the release of Podclass Web Services (PWS), a set of APIs that enable colleges, universities and companies who use online learning management systems to offer their students and instructors access to their courses from within Facebook using the Podclass app.
As of today, PWS works with the learning management system Moodle, which is the largest open-source learning management system used by over 40,000 colleges, universities and companies worldwide. Podclass will be extending PWS to support other learning management systems in the future.
Our developers have been working very hard for on PWS for several months and we are very excited to formally launch this service.
With the launch of PWS, the implications are extraordinary for any learning institution whose students use Facebook. Now any student from a college or university that uses Moodle can now access and manage their course content, connect and collaborate with classmates from inside of Facebook.
Podclass hopes to transform the face of education by enabling students and teachers to access their online courses from ANY social network they want. Currently, Podclass works within Facebook, but we plan to port our Podclass application to work with all of the Google OpenSocial social networks as well, including MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, Friendster, Linkedin, Plaxo and others.
