Question

It seems we are all shopping at the great Online-Teaching-Platform Fest 2016 this week. Many of us are simply trying to figure out where our friends are going.

So here's a thread: make a list of platforms, figure out where you're going to end up and tell your friends so they can go with you.

Answer 1

Stack Exchange.

Answer 2

I heard stack exchange always gives a condescending kind of feeling but I wouldn't know as I've never used it, probably peeranswer is where I'll go. Questioncove seems to inclusive and I don't believe it will last long as it relies too much on OS community alone, and it tries too hard to be like OS, but it isn't nor do I get the same vibe from it. But meh OS is what I really loved I doubt it can ever be replaced, I'll probably read posts on stackexchange and some mentioned above but most likely won't take part in the conversation.

Answer 3

@blues , @5ever said we weren't allowed to promote other sites except for brainly. She also mentioned that if you want to know where your friends are going you can pm each other.

Answer 4

#Arrangingdeckchairsonthetitanic?

Answer 5

@pooja195, this post doesn't look like it's promoting other platforms to me. Doesn't look like anyone has posted any links anywhere, or done anything warnable like that. We are having what appears to be a general discussion of various online educational platforms available these days, another of many which we've had in my tenure as mod on this site.



#Titanic.

Answer 6

\(\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}\) @blues
@pooja195, this post doesn't look like it's promoting other platforms to me. Doesn't look like anyone has posted any links anywhere, or done anything warnable like that. We are having what appears to be a general discussion of various online educational platforms available these days, another of many which we've had in my tenure as mod on this site.



#Titanic.
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Very true! I think it's good to have a discussion like this

Answer 7

ok

Answer 8

thanks for deleting my comments anyways @pooja195

Answer 9

I would say peeranswer but the problem with pa is that the people there are out of control most of the time. nor do i get a lot of help there... i guess if a lot of the os community merges to pa i could still get a decent amount of help.. eh i still dont know

Answer 10

"the problem with pa is that the people there are out of control most of the time."

The crux of PA. The people.

Answer 11

I was just doing what I was told you guys don't need to get all worked up about it @ILovePuppiesLol posted names of sites that @5ever said shouldn't be on here. But since all of you are saying it's fine then I have no problem with it. I apologize for deleting your comments puppies, you can go ahead and post them again.

And since this post was mean to create a general discussion i'll add my two cents:
Chathaven and brainly and Peeranswers is where I'll post likely be found.

Answer 12

I'll be on PA, probably won't be as active there as I have been here. There is the IRC though (
http://chat.mibbit.com/?channel=%23OpenStudy&server=irc.mibbit.net )
in case anyone wants to keep up with the community but doesn't want to move to one of the main alternatives.

Answer 13

I'm hoping brainly will let the community keep OpenStudy.

Answer 14

darn i dont remember my comments anymore, since you can see them, mind copy and pasting them and sending it to me?

Answer 15

A list of platforms
Peeranswer
Brainly
Questioncove
Socratic
Yahoo Answers
Quora
Other misc. websites that are rarely used or unheard of

Answer 16

Socratic is a good one, although it is less commonly heard of. They even have a set of T&C condensed for teens which i find highly useful

Answer 17

oh and jishka, idk if its interactive or anything but its worth mentioning xD

Answer 18

I think people will only be going to interactive ones with chatrooms that have a similar feel to OS.

Leaving QuestionCove and PeerAnswers to be the primary candidates. Brainly seems to have a design that no one likes and not enough functions relating to social interaction to sustain a community like OS, therefore, no migration there...

Answer 19

@ShadowLegendX there are actually a lot of people on that site. More than what OS and PA would have combined. Primarily because the site is more of a "ask a question and get an answer" site.

Answer 20

Yes, and once they attain actual notoriety as they grow, the PR storm will criticize that platform until the shareholders are crying on their sofas

Answer 21

Their platform produces false A's and every teacher who knows the website(and has it blocked on their school's network) will make sure to have that known.

Answer 22

I'd rather place my time and effort into a site that can grace that storm like a swan because of their better values than a small tycoon that will eventually see its fall.

Answer 23

I have a Socratic and while it's not live answers, it's still pretty prompt/speedy.
Plus, the way the answering box is set up, you're obligated to give explanations for your answers.
Lest the mods come crackin' down on your heads. :-D

Answer 24

\(\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}\) @pooja195
@ShadowLegendX there are actually a lot of people on that site. More than what OS and PA would have combined. Primarily because the site is more of a "ask a question and get an answer" site.
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Also all the languages they support for the worldwide population (I'm currently stuck with redirecting to a version in which I can't help in *sigh*)...so there's more people that turn to that. Yep, it's huge >.<

I agree that most OSers look for socializing features. So I'll be wandering around on the sites mentioned until I can actually place myself on English Brianly...

Answer 25

What about Brainly's platform?

Answer 26

I would suppose that this shouldn't be up to debate, and I don't have any particular objections or love for Brainly....but yes, every site has their pros and cons. However that's more opinion-based. People do learn on PA and Brainly, since I've seen that personally. Wherever we choose to go shouldn't be based solely on what we like and dislike about sites. I gave all the sites a chance and they all have good things to them.

Answer 27

What should such a decision be based upon?

Answer 28

Is open study leaving???

Answer 29

@Mrs.ambrose614 OpenStudy is closing at the end of next month.

Answer 30

\(\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}\) @ShadowLegendX
What should such a decision be based upon?
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Like I mentioned already, it of course involves your own opinions, but don't solely rely on such. Being in a different community could potentially take shape to one you fit in, given the chance and time.


"I'd rather place my time and effort into a site that can grace that storm like a swan because of their better values than a small tycoon that will eventually see its fall."

^ This was the source of my own explanation to just give all the sites a go and see the good and bad, even if your mindset is negative. If I didn't pop up on Brainly, I wouldn't have met the people that I've made friends with there. Seeing myself being accepted by strangers who opened up immediately to me and gave me tips changed my perspective. I didn't see Brainly as just an answer site with cheaters. I saw a community that has eager learners and excellent mentors.

Answer 31

Question Cove is very similar to Open Study and there's also Brainly.

Answer 32

Its nice to see a familiar face. Blues.

Answer 33

Not back at you, Stephan, you're one of the people I haven't missed.

Answer 34

ouch

Answer 35

Not sure if savage or crude humour haha. Also blues, please tell us more about stackexchange, and why it's so intriguing to you.

Answer 36

@Astrophysics.

I found Stack Exchange on Deb Chanda's advice about a year after I started on OpenStudy. Testing the water, I wrote a correct and well reasoned response to a question - and then I spent two days defending it because it was shredded by a bunch of other professional research scientists (quite correctly) for failure to cite sources. Eventually I got enough citations in there to make it stand up, and I was hooked.

I like Stack Exchange for the quality both of the questions and the answers - on the level of grad school to professional science, and for the professionalism and company of the people (i.e., grown ups) who answer them.

Back in the old days there were more real scientists on OpenStudy - Euan, Exuras, Stephan, Tom to name a few - and they left when the site consciously decided to stay more do-my-homework teenage oriented. It's a site where I learn both through looking through the threads, and by writing answers.

And the site is not mired in teenagers accomplishing as much in an online study hall as they do in their real ones.

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For whatever it's worth, I haven given Brainley it's chance, @pooja195. I made an account under the sock puppet I use from time to time on OS. I spent half a day writing beautiful well structured answers to biology problems which earned me a modship on this site years ago. Then I found the questions either reposted or my answers deleted, for reasons I do not understand, to be answered by other people popping answers.

Then I popped about 40 multiple choice answers without explanations to a person who was obviously posting their exam online. I even googled strings from the exam questions and found them reprinted, ironically with answers on OS. I levelled way up on Brainley, showing the obvious structural problems with awarding levelship through volume of questions answered in the last thirty days.

Then just to see how Brainely moderation works, I reported my own blatant violation of Brainley's teach-don't-answer code to their mods with about forty examples - and their moderation team did nothing. No warning, no deletion of answers. I checked it under a different account a few days later and found that little hectoroftroy is still a very helpful homework cheater.

The Brainly mods plainly don't give a crap. Not my style at all.

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Thank you all for the suggestions, I have been finding them very instructive. Particularly Socratic. I have been looking around all the sites in this thread and so far that seems like far and away the winner. Good questions, good people. Small enough for moderation to not be the time-sink-ending-in-a-sewer it is on OS, tutorial and archive oriented.

Young enough that its direction is still susceptible to good influences. Hmm.

Answer 37

Also Hogwartsishere.

Write the book, then write the test, then take the test.

Completely trivial, of course.

Answer 38

Actually, it's not completely trivial.

For anyone interested in online community funding models - which seem to be an area of much active speculation on OS these days - it is actually an incredibly insightful process for people interested in how to do things right.