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Thursday, February 19, 2009
WebCT founder creates academic social network - Christina Li, State Hornet
Brainify. It's not Myspace or Facebook, where students build social connections, but a website that helps students build an academic community. At Brainify.com, students and their professors can work together to build a collection of bookmarked websites that they find useful in their courses. Students also have the ability to find the best rated websites, network with other students and even build reputation by making contributions that other members find helpful. Murray Goldberg, founder of WebCT, an online system for e-learning that many colleges use including Sacramento State, is a faculty member in the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia. He said in an interview that he created Brainify to give students who are taking similar courses all over the world a way to help one another. "For years now, in the back of my head, I've always thought to myself it'd be fantastic if there were some way to be able to connect students on an academic level with other students who are taking similar kinds of degree programs," Goldberg said.
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