Grwo

@visualpharm I honestly don't know the book. I will ask my team. TBC.

@visualpharm One of the guys from our team says: "Cool book, and it was cited in some of our initial research.."

@thisisjorik good question. We offer three types of rewards; Experiences (Trips, Cooking workshops, etc.), Grwo Your Network (meeting with iconic leaders) and Product Rewards (Gift Cards, Shoes, Books, etc.). The Experiences and Grwo Your Network are really important rewardcategories for our platform. These rewards are unique and are an added value for students. For example we offer a meet and greet with Richard Belluzzo (former COO Microsoft) or a four day trip to Baja (Mexico).

@acondurache Great questions. Of course we hope that students are motivated intrinsically! However, there’s a great deal of research on the use of incentives in education. This research suggests that incentives actually /do/ work to encourage positive behaviours. For example, take a look at the studies referenced in this news article: http://news.heartland.org/newspa.... We also are aware that cheating is possible. However, we’ve implemented a number of tools to reduce cheating, from an honor code to random validation requests. Again, research suggests that even having just an honor code reduces cheating. Again, here’s an article that references some of the research we’ve done: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/da.... Thanks for the feedback!

@josephkerns Thanks! We started more than a year ago with the concept/idea. In april we launched a beta version on Clemson University, San Diego State University and Texas Tech University to test the platform. We bundled all this valuable feedback and improved the product. We opened up the platform for all universities two months ago. Currently we are busy with the Android version (which will be released in the coming weeks). We offer three types of rewards; Experiences (Trips, Cooking workshops, etc.), Grwo Your Network (meeting with iconic leaders) and Product Rewards (Gift Cards, Shoes, Books, etc.). Last month we rewarded one of our users with a trip to TomorrowWorld Festival. Hope this will answered your questions.