Socratic (Community)

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Socratic (Community)
Web address http://socratic.org
Type of site
 Social network service for students
Users 11 million (estimated) [1]
Owner Socratic, New York, United States
Created by Chris Pedregal and Shreyans Bhansali
Launched 2013

Socratic, or Socratic.org, is a internet-based community, launched in 2013 by Chris Pedregal and Shreyans Bhansali, with headquarters in New York, USA. The aim of the group is providing easy learning for anyone with a computer at hand. The community is question-answer based, i.e. the information is delivered around an question done by a student, but provides the users the possibility to upload lectures, from Youtube. The questions are graded by the users, some are "featured,"[2] considered excellent answers by the group. The core idea of the community is "basic learning," as opposite to ResearchGate, which is a publication-based community, also question-centered to a certain extent. According to reference,[3] in the upcoming years, nearly a billion students will attend to a middle and high school, and if recent projections are accurate, most of them will have a smartphone in their pocket, and this is the motivating rationale behind Socratic.

Currently there is a total of 18 subjects available on Socratic.org.[1] Further, there is also a community based Q&A subject known as Socratic Meta available in the subjects section, whose aim is discussing the future of Socratic, such as new subjects. There are many more subjects that are yet to get founders to be graduated to beta version,b they go from beta to a subject after receiving a proper attention. The founders are just Socratic users who are experts in that particular subject.a

History

Christopher P. first met Shreyans Bhansali in early 2013. They had both spent years working at tech companies (Google, Venmo) and wanted to work in education.[4] The first version of Socratic was extremely simple and Chemistry was the only subject available, step by step, new topics were added, e.g. physiology, anatomy, and biology.[4] Further, each "big topic" is split into smaller topics, such as biology in gene expression.

Socratic draft [4]
A typical socratic profile

Subjects

There are in total 4 main groups of subjects on Socratic which have sub-branches included:[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 , Socratic March 2016
  2. ↑ Becca M. What are featured answers? http://socratic.org/questions/what-are-featured-answers#215138. Accessed on 25 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Building an Educational App? by Christopher Pedregal. Accessed on March 2016. https://medium.com/building-socratic/building-an-educational-app-read-this-first-5bfd34168032#.6pkabb4vm
  4. 1 2 3 How Socratic Started, by Christopher P. Accessed on http://socratic.org/questions/how-did-socratic-start. Last access on March 2016.

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