We all know Facebook has primarily being a social network. However it seems that the company has other interests as well, and recently it was discovered that together with Summit Public Schools, Facebook has developed an educational software called the Personalized Learning Plan.
Best of all, it seems that Facebook wants to do their part for society by giving away the software to public schools who want to use it. This isn’t so much about students learning particular topics online, which they do, but rather how the education is delivered. Instead of students coming into class for lectures, the content of the class and its assignments are all posted online.
This will allow students to move at their own pace, while teachers will lead the class with real-world projects that will focus on collaboration with the students. It should be noted that the software was not built by Facebook from scratch. Instead this is based on Summit’s existing program, but Facebook decided to lend their engineering skills to help improve upon it.
The software was initially used by Summit in 2014 but they have decided to open it up to public schools who might be interested in adopting the program. While we can’t attest to the program ourselves, Summit Public Schools has had very good track records in the past and have been ranked amongst the best schools in California, so safe to say they do seem to know what they’re doing.