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Need feedback on a product idea - Instant one-to-one chat for learners

Posted by manishreddyt on Friday October 03, 2014 @12:31PM
from the self-post dept.

We are currently working on a side project. I just thought that I should feedback from HN community before building it. Your feedback would be of great help to us in shaping the product. Our motivation for building this was generally people get stuck while learning online and lose interest because there is no one else to discuss, help him to get unstuck.The idea is to build a platform where...

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Re:What according to you is the biggest problem with MOOCs? on Sunday May 19, 2013 @07:05AM (#5732530)
That is a serious problem. Let's see how they handle this.
Re:What according to you is the biggest problem with MOOCs? on Sunday May 19, 2013 @07:04AM (#5732523)
I faced a similar problem when I first started out on Coursera. Do you think cutting the course into 2/3 parts, which can be done individually improve the course format?
Re:What according to you is the biggest problem with MOOCs? on Sunday May 19, 2013 @07:01AM (#5732520)
They are not wrong. That said they can certainly be improved. I am looking at ways to improve the MOOCS structure. We are building a open course platform where anyone can teach. This is to get an understanding of the user problems.
Re:Indian startup that’s building a personalised MOOC on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @06:11AM (#5399925)
I disagree with you. With education content spread across various websites, there is a need for an aggregation and curation website. Yes, the content needs to be prepared by an expert, but the students can do self-learning.
Re:MOOC Completion Rates on Sunday March 03, 2013 @01:11AM (#5312741)
I don't understand why we are comparing the completion normal rates with MOOC's completion rate. I think that they can't be compared yet. While I am doing by degree full time, MOOC is an additional learning for me. If students could complete all courses online without attending a single class offline,the conversions would be much better. You cannot say MOOCs are good or bad just on the basis of completion rates.
Re:Decode Jay-Z with Bing - Case Study on Monday January 21, 2013 @07:22AM (#5091126)
Here are a few samples I found.

Excerpt From 'Decoded' http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230402380457556...

Samples From Jay-Z's "Decoded" http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.12870/title.samples-fr...

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