Thiel-backed Lore Bets The Newsfeed Is Education?s Future

Getting students excited enough to participate in conversation outside of class is one of the Holy Grails of teaching. Lore, formerly known as CourseKit, is a Founder's Fund-backed classroom management system that centers classroom discussion around the familiar (and addictive) interface of the scrolling newsfeed. With an impressive +600 universities already experimenting with a platform launched last winter, Lore has announced a newly redesigned interface for the upcoming semester (including a future-facing "upward" scroll for the newsfeed, which could become a staple of other social media). Lore's newsfeed makes classroom conversation public by default. Instead of one-to-one emails or conversations between students and professors, everything gets listed on the public platform.

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