page_title: Geoset
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Geoset / History
caption_attribution_description: Harold Kroto, at the Nobel Laurate Globalsymposium 2011, at Vetenskapsakademien in Stockholm, discussing climate change
context_page_description: GEOSET is a nonprofit educational initiative founded by the Nobel Laureate Sir Harold Kroto in 2006 to provide a “free resource of educational material”. Students record presentations detailing their work or interests on a subject matter. The presentations can also form part of course assessment.
  The main GEOSET website is a database gateway that links all the contributing institutions and the local site and contains presentations produced at the Florida State University GEOSET Studios. Some of the students who have recorded presentations have been successful in obtaining job offers when showing the video to perspective employers.
context_section_description: The inspiration for GEOSET was based on the ability of Google, YouTube and Wikipedia to enable people across the world to access a repository of educational material. Harold Kroto called this revolution the "Goo-You-Wiki World".  
  Participating organizations and institutions are encouraged to record presentations and create a local site to host them. The URLs from the presentations and representative images are then added to a GEOSET database site. The videos produced make up a series of concepts which teachers are encouraged to use. There are many participating institutions including the University of Sussex, Sheffield University and Toyo University. The initiative has also been demonstrated in the Middle East with the aim of strengthening the resources for science research  and in China, with Anhui University of Technology (AHUT) being one of the first to join the GEOSET initiative.
caption: GEOSET founder Sir Harold Kroto.
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