Industry Peer learning Website studyhall.com | Headquarters US | |
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Studyhall is an online education startup based in Washington, DC, United States, and founded by Cornell and Washington University in Saint Louis School of Law graduate Ross Blankenship. The company is a peer-to-peer learning platform that seeks to change higher education by providing a virtual space in which students can collaborate.
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Studyhall is active at American University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, Arizona State University, Columbia University, George Washington University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California – Berkeley, University of California – Davis, University of California – Los Angeles, Stanford University, and Washington University in Saint Louis.
Features
Students create Studyhall.com accounts by providing the platform with their .edu email addresses. Studyhall members add their classes to their profile each semester, and are connected to other students in the same courses. Other student groups are also able to communicate with Studyhall.com’s group forum pages. Students are notified of other members’ activity on the website through updates on their account homepage.
Studyhall.com accounts have a word processing feature for members to record, share, and organize class notes. Each accounts has video-chat capability for interactive study sessions, in which notes can be shared between two members on a collaborative “whiteboard.”
History
Studyhall.com officially launched in September 2012 at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, where the company was a Startup Battlefield Finalist.