Dive Brief:
- EdCasting, a new social sharing platform from EdCast, lets people create handles, follow others, and engage in lifelong learning with bite-sized content.
- According to eCampus News, the concept combines elements of Twitter and massive open online courses to offer a feed of short videos and other educational content to subscribers.
- EdCasting launched with 10 channels, compartmentalizing its feeds by topics that include food science, sustainable development, music, ed tech, nuclear security, and robotics.
Dive Insight:
EdCasting is available to users on laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Even without subscribing, one can sift through the content, watching short videos or following links to published articles. When a user creates a handle and interacts with the community, it allows the network to start tailoring content to his or her interests. The purely educational content represents a new step in the knowledge-sharing economy, meeting people where they already are: social media. How quickly EdCasting takes off, and how it might also integrate with EdCast's personal learning networks, will be interesting to see.