{"id":24563,"date":"2011-12-08T13:18:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T13:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/smarterplanet-the-ingenious-business-model\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:17:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:17:34","slug":"smarterplanet-the-ingenious-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/smarterplanet-the-ingenious-business-model\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24563 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/smarterplanet-the-ingenious-business-model\/attachment\/24564\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lvsdqtXaex1qzs4rbo1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/smarterplanet.tumblr.com\/post\/13830688637\/the-ingenious-business-model-behind-coursekit-a\">smarterplanet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1799173\/coursekit-a-tumblr-for-learning?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:%20fastcompany\/headlines%20(Fast%20Company%20Headlines)\">The Ingenious Business Model Behind Coursekit, A Tumblr For Higher Education | Fast Company<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At universities, educational software largely means enterprise-scale, expensive, feature-stuffed \u201clearning management systems.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/\">Blackboard<\/a>\u00a0has the majority of the market, but professors and students are about as enthusiastic about its various updates, crashes, and bugs as people are with the latest version of Windows (Blackboard scores a whopping 93% \u201chated\u201d rating on website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amplicate.com\/software\/778-top-software-companies\/\">Amplicate<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/coursekit.com\/app#course\/1245.kamenetz\">alternative<\/a>\u00a0was launched\u2014built by students\u2014that looks and works a lot more like the social platforms people actually choose to use in their spare time. The core of the site is a constantly updated social Stream where instructors and students can conduct discussions or easily post rich media. Picture a cleaner-looking Facebook news feed, centered on a single academic theme, or a group Tumblr blog where each picture, question, or video can accumulate its own discussion in the attached comment thread.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to create a simple, elegant LMS that covers 95% of instructors\u2019 needs, like grading, file management, calendaring, submitting assignments, and emailing with the class,\u201d says Joseph Cohen, 20, who left Wharton after his sophomore year when he scored $1 million in seed funding this past June to start\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/coursekit.com\/\">Coursekit<\/a>. \u201cBlackboard covers 100%\u2014 that\u2019s why it\u2019s such a cluttered platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>smarterplanet: The Ingenious Business Model Behind Coursekit, A Tumblr For Higher Education | Fast Company At universities, educational software largely means enterprise-scale, expensive, feature-stuffed \u201clearning management systems.\u201d\u00a0Blackboard\u00a0has the majority of the market, but professors and students are about as enthusiastic about its various updates, crashes, and bugs as people are with the latest version of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6ob","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24565,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24563\/revisions\/24565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}