Question

I am bringing this idea again (i suggested it several months ago). Some users might be good with a specific topic (not a group), so some of them could volunteer to be online teachers. (i am going to put a list of suggestions to make this work as an answer)

Answer 1

1. Any student can join (the teacher can put a max. to the student number)
2. Teachers need to have have a smarscore of 50 or higher (or 80, you decide).
3. Teachers will submit a "permission asking" with a topic, number of classes, max number of students, and other things. Then the admins would say if it passes or not.
4. Teachers can ask for homeworks, upload videos and other things. Also you could provide a quiz feature.

Any question?

Answer 2

That's good idea but I think you may as well add an age limit along with all the conditions, because a high school kid can't teach a college student.

Answer 3

So, I'd be interested to see what @chris would have to say about this, but to me it seems like this is counter to what one of the major overarching goals of OpenStudy is - communities of students teaching students. By establishing that teacher/student dynamic, what would make us any different than any of the other top-down approaches out there?

Do you see what I'm saying? Like I said, I'd love to see what the other guys say, but those are just my two cents.

Answer 4

Farmdawg makes a good point regarding our focus. As usual, it's a matter of resources. The idea itself is a great idea, but in order to use our time as best we can, we've focused on creating communities of students teaching students. Even if not everyone is technically a student on the site, we like presenting more or less everyone as socially equal, even if they are not at the same knowledge level.

But beyond that, the point is that even if we hadn't explicitly decided to avoid top-down approaches, our *focus* is students-teaching-students, so we're trying to put most of our time in building tools that make that easier. Unfortunately, that often doesn't overlap with tools that make the top-down approach easier (as with the one you've proposed).

That said, I remember the idea from when you first proposed it, and it's still one we have in mind in case anything changes.

Answer 5

The way it is stated above, the smartscore would sort of lose it's appeal, to me. I like how the SS is geared so that the magnitude is entirely up to the user. As implemented above, it would become more of a competition of brainy brawn...

Answer 6

Yay someone said SS again, @SS should lead to me :P