In another move to distance themselves from their college-oriented roots, Facebook has removed their “courses” feature that allowed students to indicate what courses they’re taking and the profiles of their classmates. On the Facebook Developers blog, they announced:
Facebook will be phasing out its Courses feature in early August, and we wanted to make sure you were the first to know. Collaboration services and applications are a big part of the world of Education. Especially on college campuses, where we first found our roots. Many of you have probably used some kind of collaboration software as a part of your courses. Our courses application was a great way to connect with new friends, and find your classmates. But, we think Facebook Developers can create even more robust ways to create, connect, and collaborate around teaching and learning in the classroom.
As I previously discussed, librarians are creating promising Facebook apps – who will be the first to create a popular Courses app?
Do you feel students would use social networks such as facebook for
learning?