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So, essentially, what I'm seeking is a de-facto place where learners go to colloborate and discuss things. It just seems everything is spread so thin, that only few communities really survive (like /r/cs50).

And of the broader communities, like /r/learnmath, it is all so impersonal and broad that it runs into the same problems that stack echange does. The only more personal solution, IRC, is always unsustainable (there is no channel dedicated to learning Calculus, for example, and finding people to work through Spivak's book on it is nearly impossible).

I guess maybe I'm trying to find the open source Tinder of group studying/tutoring.

>>911103

Call your local libraries and ask what groups meet up at them regularly. They will usually have weekly or semi-monthly groups to meet up for all kinds of topics.

I can assure you that my local library will not, and this only demonstrates the problem further. I'm looking to connect people who normally could not or would not meet in person.

This pretty much just sounds like IRC.

>>911113

I fear that it might be a dead end beause of that, but what I'm envisioning would be a bit different, though it would certainly utilize IRC.

So, as a widly immature example of this thought, one could enter the online community with tags on what material they're familiar with, and let's say our example learner is familiar with the following:

>Harvard's CS50

>Spivak's Calculus

>Stewart's Calculus and PreCalculus

You would then join 'classrooms' to fit these topics (both IRC for chats and forums for unanswered questions). On a particular basis, because you're familiar with Stewart's PreCalculus, you'd be in a channel with others who are familiar with it (either working through it, or have finished it). If you're not interested in helping noobs, you drop the class, if you are, you participate. And on a more general level, you'd be joined into the "math" and "programming" 'classes' and forums/irc groups. The level of particular vs. general could be stretched further, perhaps with a "calculus" classroom in which various related topics are discussed, not particular to any text or resource within the field. And so on and so forth.

Further, some sort of motivation could be instilled in classes by releasing "batches" of students that work together following a syllabus. For example, if a queue (or "lobby) of a minimum of x students fills up for Stewart's Calculus, the class would then begin so that all students are encouraged to move roughly at the same pace and can help each other in a chronologically organized manner. If a student moves faster, they can then be bumped into the next lobby, and vice versa if they get stuck or slack.

I hope this isn't coming off as a bunch of jibberish. I think it'd be doable. But yes, basically a large portion of it would be a hierarchial IRC.

>>911113

>>911114

I'm looking for ideas though, I would just simply like to connect to study buddies, basically. And if enough buddies are connected to construct a classroom, even better. If the structure I outlined is shit and you can propose something better, please do.

>>911102 (OP)

>topics their studying and the resources their using

Why do yaall niggers Gen-Z'ers speak like this?

>>915862

I don't speak like that (their, there and they're are homophones, idiot), but I do occasionally type it wrongly though (as evidenced), and this has nothing to do with my age (that you know nothing of) or grammatical understanding of the language.