Students struggling with homework or trudging through their personal study time no longer have to do it alone. OpenStudy, an online education platform with more than 100,000 students from 170 countries and over 1,600 schools, has opened the door to learning together.
The site, which started in September 2010 with about 3,000 users and a pilot program with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has massively grown and been considered the “Match.com of student study help” by TheNextWeb
OpenStudy enables students studying OpenCourseWare to help each other via chat rooms and multi-player study groups. Students in the online forums are given a drawing board to walk a student through a problem. Those who help others are awarded medals and achievements to their profiles and can even move up in their level of content interaction. One student from the University of Australia, Catherine Lacey, is considered a Level 40 Hero and spends approximately 30 hours a week answering students’ questions, according to a report by the Chronicle of Higher Learning. The online education platform is free and open for anyone looking to learn faster and possibly teach a few things as well. Follow Dustin Bass on Twitter @dbass_cmn
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