Show HN: uMOOC, an online tutoring platform for Harvard's CS50 and MIT's 6.00.1

Re:Show HN: uMOOC, an online tutoring platform for Harvard's... by dkennemo on Friday June 16, 2017 @01:38AM (#14566893)

Hello, I'm Dwayne Kennemore, the other founder of uMOOC.

A group section would be terrific for another reason - in academic contexts, while students DO learn from their professors, they learn from ONE ANOTHER as much or more. There are a few reasons for this, but one of them is, I think, that they're more at ease with one another and don't have to worry about looking bad - this openness helps ideas flow more freely.

Group functionality would make that dynamic possible, further replicating the network that occurs in real life, in cyberspace.

You are already anticipating v2.0.

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Re:Show HN: uMOOC, an online tutoring platform for Harvard's... by perseusprime11 on Friday June 16, 2017 @06:55AM (#14567902)

Won't it then just become an online class? How will you differentiate?

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Re:Show HN: uMOOC, an online tutoring platform for Harvard's... by dkennemo on Friday June 16, 2017 @08:51AM (#14568406)

Think of it like a breakout session of an online class rather than an online class itself. Why is that useful, you may ask... Having a group and sense of connection helps keep people motivated.

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