Project Title: EDU Battery
Group Members: Erin Aulfinger, Jared Schools, Ian Dover
EDU Battery is a service dedicated to the Christian Brothers University community. Through its circuit forums TextSwap and GroupWith, it allows students to network with each other and collaborate on ways to save money and improve their grades. TextSwap allows students to collaborate on the necessity of a book for a class, and to find cheap alternatives to purchasing a physical text. GroupWith is an application forum where students can find others in a course, or other courses, with similar study habits and create study groups and schedules.
Presentation: EDU Battery Google Slides
Website: EDU Battery
GroupWith Google Form: GroupWith Application Form
Instagram: edu.battery
2 comments:
I think the concept of this idea is very good. I like the idea of having a form for someone to fill out if they are looking for a group to study in. From experience, I have attempted to join a study group and cannot focus, mainly because my study habits did not correlate with others. However, I think this could also work with a big campus community, such as the University of Memphis. I have a friend who is in a class of around 150 students. I can see where it might be difficult to get to know every classmate and discuss creating a study group.
With the TextSwap, I can see where this would have some difficult aspects. In my opinion, I think this could work if you're okay with giving away a textbook that you spent a pretty penny on. Although, I like the idea if I'm looking for a quick way to get a pdf file of a textbook, novel, etc.
Y'all presented well and I like how you created something that we could possibly instill within the Christian Brothers University Community. Great Job!
I think that the initial idea for this project was strong, but ended up moving in another direction. While TextSwap and GroupWith are both nice ideas, I feel like they did not really follow as a solution to your problem. One way I think you could modify TextSwap for this would be to turn it into a type of online library where the books are donated or sold to EDU Battery from outside sources for students to check out. This way all users do not have to pay for anything, unless of course they cause damage to a book. In that case there can be a fee to pay just like at the library. While it may not be the most efficient source for things like newer editions of textbooks, it could be a great source for books for English classes since those are often the same classics. To use this, students can create an account that allows them to check out books for periods like half a semester, a full semester, or an entire school year. They would also have to agree to a terms and conditions stating that if they cause damage to or lose any books they check out, they are required to pay a fee depending on the prior condition of the book. I think the best way for this suggestion to work is that it is set up similarly to a library in terms of checking out and returning books and how they are to be handled. The main problem with this though I think would be supply versus demand depending on how popular it may become. This would probably require help from sponsors and other suppliers especially when starting out. Since it is explicitly an online library, chances are there will be many more users than your local library, requiring a greater stock of books. Overall I think it was a nice project on its own, but should have related back more as a solution to the problem.
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