Farbood Nivi, founder and CEO of Grockit announced a change in the company’s business model. From now on Grockit is a “one-for-one” company which means that for every student that signs up for a paid plan, Grockit will give access to the site to one under-served student for free.
This is especially great news for me as I envisioned such a model in education earlier this year in my post “A TOMS Shoes for Education?“.
Grockit will work together with a large group of organisations in the field and Grockit customers can choose which one they want to direct their one-for-one purchase towards.
Also yesterday at the f8 developer conference Grockit, one of the pioneers in the social learning space, launched its Facebook integration.
Facebook with its more than 750 million users has increasingly become the basis for startups that build education layers on top of the social network like Inigral, Hoot.me or PlaySay to name a few.
Grockit’s layer has four components and is about sharing your learning progress with your peers. After students connected the social application to their Facebook profile, they can earn and display achievements, create study groups and invite friends to join, play games and display the study progress on their Facebook profile. Farbood also points out in the blog post that
Earlier this year, Grockit released research showing that students who study together on Grockit do twice as much work — and get answers correct more often — than students who study alone.
Website: grockit.com
Twitter: @grockit
Facebook: facebook.com/grockit
