ePals Introduces LearningSpace 2.0: A Social Learning Platform Bringing Safe Social Networking and Online Collaboration to K-12 Educators and Students

ePals Corporation ("ePals"), an education technology company and leading safe social learning network ("SLN"), today announced the launch of LearningSpace 2.0, the next generation of its social learning platform.

LearningSpace Brochure (PDF)

ePals' LearningSpace 2.0 combines the best features of consumer collaboration and social networking platforms -- such as Google +, Facebook, and Twitter -- with SchoolSafe(TM) technology-enabled safety and privacy controls to manage online social interaction.
In addition, LearningSpace 2.0 contains substantial enhancements that optimize the platform for educator-mediated and peer-based learning, not merely social interaction. LearningSpace 2.0 lets schools and districts create online learning communities of any size -- within a classroom, across a district or across a network of classrooms worldwide.

Broad Range of Social Learning Capabilities In this release, LearningSpace ships with more than 40 customizable apps for communication, collaboration, moderation and site formatting, which gives district administrators and educators the ability to modify the platform to suit their needs -- including combining apps to create both private and public-facing school pages. Other collaborative features include enhanced grouping functions for classes, organizations and team projects; integrated assignment and project support; multi-level blogs, wikis, forums, and media galleries; and dynamic events and calendars.

More About LearningSpace 2.0

• Enhanced Groups - Streamlined ability for educators to create, organize and navigate hierarchies of safe, Web 2.0-enabled groups for classes, projects, collections, school clubs, special interest groups and local and global collaborations;
• Advanced Web 2.0 Tools - Ability to add and remove multiple Web 2.0 features such as blogs, media galleries, wikis and forums within each group for multi-model teaching and learning;
• Assignments and Project Support - Assignment and homework dropbox features for teachers to easily manage, assign and send updates about school work;
• Dynamic Calendars and Events - Event management tools and dynamically populated calendars for students, parents and educators to track events, due dates and deadlines across the groups and classes relevant to them;
• School and District Websites - Ability to create externally facing school-branded pages from easy-to-use templates to manage public communications

For more information on ePals' LearningSpace, visit www.learningspace.epals.com
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Source: Marketwire and ePals