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Facebook, the amazing platform that is just sweeping across the world at the moment, is leaving the ranks of the procrastinators and social media evangelists; it’s now going into the classroom as a psychology experiment.
The Stanford Daily reports on how a course — ‘Create Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook’ — will be offered from within the Computer Science Department at Stanford.
This class follows in the wake of Pitzer College’s media studies class “Learning from YouTube,” marking a growing trend of college courses centered on analyzing current online media and content.
“What is so interesting about Facebook is that nobody really understands it, and we are all still figuring it out,” B.J. Fogg ‘95, director of the Persuasive Technology Lab, said. “One of the goals of this class is for us to try to figure it out together.”
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