Start-Up Aspires to Make the World 'One Big Study Group'

Retrieved from Wired Campus on September 12, 2010 By Marc Parry

Thousands of students are enrolling in gigantic open online courses.
Would students go for vast open online study groups, too?

OpenStudy, a start-up company spun off by Georgia Tech and Emory University, is betting the answer to that question is yes. Its Web site is the latest effort to create a social platform for independent learners who want to help each other study the huge trove of educational materials published free online by universities like MIT.

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