Purdue is piloting their home-grown tool, Hotseat, which:
“creates a collaborative classroom, allowing students to provide near real-time feedback during class and enabling professors to adjust the course content and improve the learning experience. Students can post messages to Hotseat using their Facebook or Twitter accounts, sending text messages, or logging in to the Hotseat Web site.”
It is built so that it can accommodate the latest social tool students use. Expected full campus rollout next year.
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/hotseat/
I like this approach, since it is not being marketed as a “facebook killer”, but a way to harness the power of these type of sites for the classroom.
Contacting them to see if this will be available to other schools.
