Facebook wants to go to School with Facebook Academics and Mixable (a Purdue University Experiment)

Just what I thought! In my previous blog I concluded that the only platform that Facebook cannot surpass with google is the education platform. Google education is integrating its platform with other universities around Asia for integrating the classroom instruction to the online education resources.  

As of today Facebook launches the new Facebook Academics to cater the students using their facebook accounts. Facebook is getting smarter, in a sense that Facebook Academics will cater the academic journals just the same with google scholar. 

As of this time, teacher cannot say that students cannot use Facebook inside the classroom.  Facebook is part of the curriculum and Facebook is part of research.  In fact, Facebook has already committed to have business with JSTOR academic journals. 

Maybe, if I will use JSTOR journals via Facebook I can have discounts or rather free journals for my research.  I don’t know what is the real business deal between Facebook and JSTOR at this time, but what I’m hoping is Facebook can change the discriminating world of research resources.  

As I refer to my previous blogs, the world is flat in the world of internet.  Maybe Facebook can change the expensive buying and selling of journals into a free information research journal platform.