Stanford gets a Facebook course

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Stanford gets a Facebook course

by Chris Gilmer Sep 12th 2007

By now we realize that some of us really cannot live without social networks. Great places like Facebook keep us in touch with friends and contacts, even though those little applications might distract us from work for an hour or two, its all good.

Stanford University has jumped into the Facebook game and opened up a course for students to learn how to build Facebook Applications. Given that there are a number of people that are developing tools for the social network it seems like a great idea. The course will not focus on building the applications themselves, it will focus on designing persuasive and engaging user experiences within Facebook.

The Stanford course is still in an experimental phase, and will not be rolled out over videocast or podcast sessions like some Stanford courses do until it gets sorted out and fine-tuned. It is being taught by Dave McClure, the well known software developer, angel investor, internet marketer and of 500 hats fame, and BJ Fogg who operates a Stanford lab and runs YackPack an online group connector.

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Tags: api, applications, bj fogg, BjFogg, dave mcclure, DaveMcclure, facebook, stanford, students, university

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Tom Hanson said 4:38PM on 10-11-2007

I found this idea amazing and wrote about it at:

http://www.openeducation.net/2007/10/11/the-changing-facebook-of-education/

If there is one carrot for students it is relevance. Could there be any greater motivational tool than to ask students to take a cutting edge, pop culture idea and give it their own touch?

And does anyone know of any other schools offering similar cutting edge courses?

Tom Hanson
Editor
OpenEducation.net

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