You asked for it!! We are recruiting our 2013 Global Interns.

You have to be actively enrolled in school or college. Recent college graduates are also welcome to apply.

Interns will work on all of these three areas.

1. Community Management: Interns will learn to manage and monitor the OpenStudy community, respond to user prompts, deal with community issues, develop and run new loyalty and engagement programs like the Ambassador program.
2. Analytics: Interns will learn to use the latest social media analytics tools like Google Analytics, MixPanel etc and also work with OpenStudy’s database.
3. Sales/Marketing/BizDev Social media: Interns will use social media tools like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin for marketing, retention and user growth.

Experience:  Applicants must have an OpenStudy SmartScore of 30 to apply.

Hours: We need a commitment of at least 10 hours a week, for at least a month.

Attitude:  More than experience, we are looking for interns who have demonstrated ability to work with people cross culturally, who have an interest in social networks, who have demonstrated leadership and are ready to challenge themselves.  We are looking for friendly outgoing people with an interest in entrepreneurship and who can communicate well across ages and cultures.

Salary: None.  But we will write you a letter of recommendation and kick start your resume!

Please fill out the form online.

Applicants will be interviewed on a rolling basis starting May 21st.

Join the growing group of OpenStudiers making a difference, doing well and doing good!

1. Brain food number 1: Peanuts

A little protein a little carb and whole lotta taste!  And it comes with the recommendation of one of our most active OpenStudiers, Nincompoop!  And if you don’t believe him, read this: ” The blend of protein, niacin, and fiber in peanut butter sandwiches is an ideal cocktail for boosting and maintaining blood sugar, so your kid can stay focused ..”

Follow the instructions on the site to print the coupon.  And take it with you to the store.

2. Brain Food number 2: Chocolate:

You are going to love this!  In a study elderly folks who consumed chocolate drinks improved on their cognitive tests and verbal fluency! Hey, if it can help the elderly,think how your cognitive functions can zoom!!! Grab the Dove bars!  Follow the instructions on the site to print the coupon.  And take it with you to the store.

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Congratulations to OpenStudy Ambassador Mathslover for his stunning performance in India’s premier exams for smart school age students, the National Science Talent Exam.  About 4.2 million students have taken this exam to date.  We can be sure that the competition was pretty stiff!

Not only did he do very well and receive a certificate for his presentation, he was the highest ranking student from his school!

Kudos from the OpenStudy community! +10000!

Check out our latest and coolest – (yet!) study group on Design.  No longer obsessed with Left Brain stuff, we are going for the Right brain with this group.

You can get there by going to OpenStudy and then clicking on the “Find More Subjects” button on the top.  Type in “Design” and you should be able to click right into the group.

We have several questions already on the group! For example, if you have a design project you are working on, post it here!  Checkout poopsiedoodle’s project designing a new programming language (Here)!

Check out the Owl Design efforts led by some of our Ambassadors, Snuggielad, Dumbsearch, Swag and Arripotta.

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Now this has grown virally with many users starting to explore their design sense and creating their own Owl avatars!

Not only are the OpenStudiers good at giving help in Math and Science, clearly they have design sense and energy!  All they needed was a gathering place!

“Ummm, What should I ask?”

Some folks are trying to make sense of which design tool to use.  Some want to know where to get help using these tools? Some are just noodling on the notion of a design career. So if you are a high schooler or a college student, an engineer, a long time designer with advice to give, this is the place to “Give help and Get help“! Join the conversation.

To help jump start these conversations, we are fortunate that Autodesk has offered their support.  Autodesk is  a global leader in Design and has supported teaching Design and Design thinking in high school and college.  They  are  helping us by connecting global learners to Autodesk’s design community of high school and college students.

What do you get when you bring the world’s most vibrant social learning community to talk with folks with some serious design XP?

We start a revolution in design thinking!

- April 1, 2013

Can peers really teach one another? Can you learn from someone who does not have the credentials to learn? What if the answer is wrong?  All of these questions are raised when I start talking about peer learning.  Usually I speak in paragraphs addressing all these questions.  Today, I am delighted to just post these two links to peer learning interactions on the OpenStudy site.

So take a look at peer learning in action, online, and between strangers (Links below).  Marvel how well it can work.

Link to the whole exchange is here.  

I loved this one because of the complexity of the question and the trouble that the the answered, Klimenkov helps Smokey work through the answer. Smokey is not embarrassed to ask for help when he does not understand.  Klimenkov draws elaborate diagrams to illustrate the concept and adds  beautifully formatted (Latex plugins make everything look lovely) mathematical expressions.  These took time.  Best of all, he challenges the learner to demonstrate his learning at the end.  He wants to be reassured that the learner has learned something.  Klimenkov is a college student in a far off country.

Link to this exchange

I loved the second one because the expert here, UnkleRhaukus is demanding participation.  He is not ready to provide an answer until the asker has demonstrated his work.  As they work through the problem, the asker, Smokey concludes “ :D that makes me excited. i cant thank you enough !(: ”

Excited that he has mastered this!  That is the power of peer learning, the power to engage the learner.

And then, another user comes in to encourage the asker and compliment him.  Clearly he knows Smokey.  ”You are great to work with.”  he says.

Encouragement from a peer.  Engagement.  Its a happy warm buzz. And then, it is hardly surprising that learning happens. Klimenkov and UnkleRhaukus were once the askers, looking for help.  It was these sort of experiences thatgently dragged them back – this time to help, to answer and to encourage their fellow learners.  Peer learning at its best!

Do you feel the warm glow?

• ” OS has provided me a lot and i have to return the favor by being a part of the team.
• “I have lots of patience,am kind hearted, I make sure the Code of Conduct is followed, I love to be on Openstudy.”
• “Because I am very sweet to people.”
• “OpenStudy is a really great website for helping and asking, but its focus is only in English-spoken areas. I see the potential of promoting this site to the Chinese community.”
• “I enjoy helping people, no matter what it is. Although I haven’t been with OS for very long, i feel that i can help anyone with whatever they need, and know a good deal about the site.
• “I have been here for almost 2 years( nearly 400 logged in days) and always abided by the terms and conditions.”
• “I’d like to have more friends and help more people in their studies by using this site.”
• ” I just recommended OpenStudy to my students for the starting semester.”

Please join me in welcoming the new Ambassadors!

Hba, ParthKohli, hartnn, uri, tyteen4a03, zaynahf, AravindG, chihiroasleaf, ataly,vmgadu

And don’t worry.  You can still apply.  We will announce another cohort soon!