Fast Facts January 2011 - Membership Members from over 300 academic institutions in 10 countries. December 2010 - Featured on TAG Our radio interview by the Technology Association of Georgia focuses on innovative education technology. October 2010 - Featured on CNN Our appearance on the CNN News Chalk Talk segment illustrates our impact on the world. January 2010 - UGA Adopts 9thPeriod.com University of Georgia adopts us to Transform social networking into academic networking for over 35,000 students and educators. January 2010 - Featured on WFXL Fox 31 Reporter Romney Smith highlights how Colleges use social networking to help students learn. January 2010 - Membership Members from over 200 academic institutions in 8 countries. A New Take on Academic Collaboration 9thPeriod is a new and exciting global social education network and academic platform. Our Web 2.0 Learning Tools are extremely innovative and solves many educational problems that academic institutions face today. Imagine being able to offer school districts a product that allows them the ability to connect students, parents, teachers, and community experts not only at their own schools but within the entire district, state, and possibly even the world. A New Focus on Integrated Learning We integrate with a number of Learning Management Systems, Longitudinal Data Systems, as well as Content Authoring tools to extend your current product offering with the Web 2.0 Learning Tools that students and teachers are familiar with. 9thPeriod works by allowing students to help themselves and each other with homework assignments, projects, papers, and exams. Our goal is to give the academic community the means to connect with other individuals who are working on similar assignments with like academic minds.
Student Satisfaction Student engagement is an extremely important part of the academic process. Engaged students are more excited about the learning process and have higher levels of achievement. By integrating Web 2.0 learning tools such as media and academic networking into the learning process, we increase student engagement. Value and Affordability Our learning platform is extremely affordable. The value add of what we offer is a product that will allow individuals to easily find relevant materials and other people who can help them facilitate a higher level of self initiated and self driven learning. Our tools keep students engaged by delivering education to them where they are whether that is mobile devices or social networks. Our tools also allow educators to focus curriculum on the areas students need help in.
