Edmodo Launches New Marketplace for Learning Resources
A new content marketplace for educators that is
currently
being tested in beta will be fully available later this fall.
K-12 education network Edmodo
is launching Edmodo
Spotlight,
which will give teachers the ability to collect, share, buy and sell
educational
resources to improve student learning.
The new marketplace
will
allow educators to share their resources, review resources from all over
the Web, curate collections of their own favorites and buy and sell them
to
each other, as well as to and from third-party sources. Educators will
have the
ability to search for materials by grade level, subject, resource type
and
price.
Parents will also be able to access the resources for
their
children.
"Our goal with Edmodo Spotlight is two-fold," said
Edmodo CEO
Vibhu Mittal. "To provide teachers the opportunity to share their
original
content, and to better sort educational resources in a crowd-source
fashion, so
that the best materials are surfaced and used in the right way to
advance
student learning."
At the same time, Edmodo unveiled Edmodo
Sync, a single
sign-on and student information system that will make it easier to bring
teachers and students onto Edmodo. Intended to simplify the
implementation
process, Edmo Sync
will securely update credentials and enable users to log in
with their existing usernames and passwords.
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