StudyStream gives students a place to study live with thousands of others
Still can’t wrap your head around people wanting to watch others play video games on the internet? Here’s another one that might bend your brain a bit: people are watching other people study on the internet.
While it’s easy to miss if you’re a few years out of school, there’s a whole internet community built around studying and how to (hopefully) study better — one filled with Discords, subreddits and ridiculously chill music.
One part of all this is the “Study With Me” stream — which, as the name suggests, is a livestream of someone studying, meant to be kinda-sorta-watched while the viewer studies too. There might be a bit of music, maybe some rain sounds … but, for the most part, the host won’t be talking much or trying to entertain. That’d kind of defeat the purpose, after all. Don’t think anyone would tune in to that? There are dedicated YouTube channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and pre-recorded, hours-long study streams with millions of views.
While the livestream studying concept has been around for a few years, much of its uptick in popularity came with the pandemic. How do you do study group when the library is closed and we’re not supposed to be sitting around each other in stuffy rooms?
StudyStream, a team out of Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 class, is bringing all of these ideas together and building it into a platform — a dedicated place online where students can study with others, share study tips and more. They offer 24/7 “focus rooms” on Zoom, where students are meant to turn on their camera, pop on some headphones and crack open their books with up to 1,000 other students — plus a Discord community for students who want to connect after the fact, or want to live study in smaller groups.
Launched late last year, the team is already seeing solid traction. Co-founder Sarujan Ranjan tells me they’ve seen upward of four million users come onto the platform, and their Discord community recently passed 400,000 users. Any time I’ve checked in the past few weeks, their study streams (of which six run in parallel) have collectively had thousands of users online. They also host onboarding streams bright and early each weekday, where they breakdown how the focus rooms work and introduce people to the etiquette … like why no one is talking.
Just as talking in a library would probably get you shushed, the 1,000-person streams aren’t meant for chatting — again, chatter would sort of defeat the purpose. Everyone’s microphone is blocked and the in-Zoom chat is disabled.
Of course, people find ways to express themselves. Some users change their Zoom display names to their social media handles; others hold up handwritten notes to say hello. One cute trick people seem to use is “waving” with Zoom’s built-in hand raise feature — it’s a way to say hello but also a way to get yourself bumped into the first few pages of on-screen streamers, if that’s something you want.
(And, of course, people will find ways to troll — give people a webcam, an audience and some degree of anonymity, and, well, it happens. As such, StudyStream has live moderators in each of the streams, with multiple ways to report anyone being nasty.)
Ranjan and his co-founders, Erfan Soliman and Tianyou Xu, didn’t initially set out to build a study streaming platform. In 2018, they founded the Knowledge Collective, an education platform where they’d host leadership training programs. In talking to more students, though, they found that most of them weren’t looking for another place to find stuff to watch or read.
“They didn’t have a problem with content. The thing that was really bothering them was … feeling unmotivated. Or unproductive, or isolated. [They’d say] ‘I can get the content, I just can’t get myself to actually read it.’”
So they started experimenting with study focus rooms, quickly finding an audience after a few popular study TikTokers and study influencers (they exist!) joined the platform and hyped it up. As more and more users stuck around and turned to StudyStream as a way to find community in a deeply isolating time, they knew it was time to make it their focus.
“We don’t want any student to have to study alone ever again,” says Ranjan, “regardless of where in the world they may be.”
All of StudyStream’s focus rooms are currently free to join, so how will they make money? That’s still in the works. Ranjan tells me they’ve experimented with premium rooms and have plenty of other concepts in the works — but for now, they’re focused on building out the platform and keeping users happy. One aspect of this is building out the experience outside of the focus rooms; they’re currently in a closed beta of their expanded web app, which will offer up things like shared task lists, an overview of how long/often you’ve studied, and more ways to connect with other students on the platform.
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Welcome to Study Education, Scholarships make your study easier thousands of potential scholarships worldwide are found here. Students or any are supported to find scholarship as the easiest way ever Anyone can search for scholarships on the site without any cost or personal information required. By offering online scholarship searching, we make finding scholarships much easier. We bring students the highest quality scholarships from the best education centres in the world. We wish to make their study path easier with scholarships. Our scholarships serve all students. Whether you’re a high school student, college student, or anyone with the expectation of chasing the learning path, you are welcomed to our site. We wish to support all students throughout the world, simultaneously, and want to help students having the expectation of studying abroad find a scholarship.
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Are you seeking a career whereby you spend most of your time in a classroom? Do you like working with children? Have you always had a passion and love for influencing the lives of others in a positive way? Let your dream become reality and apply for an Education and Teaching degree!
What is Education and Teaching?
Education and Teaching is a degree that offers much more than just lecturing kids and students. It is truly a rewarding job as this degree will teach you everything you need to know about lecturing children and students. Not only will you teach children all sort of things, they will teach you as well. They will leave an impact on you and you will find yourself surrounded by fun, enthusiastic, and honest youngsters.
Education is the study of the process of receiving and giving systematic instruction. As a degree, it mixes a theoretical grounding in the history, anthropology, sociology and economics of education, psychology and human development, and applied courses on teaching methods.
Different degrees may specialise in areas such as early childhood education, health and physical education, primary teaching, secondary teaching or secondary teaching/vocational education. They can also allow you to specialise in teaching a specific subject matter.
Why should you study Education and Teaching?
There are several reasons as to why you should study Education and Teaching and become a teacher. One of the many reasons is job security. A recession will not cut off teachers since they will always be needed. You get to laugh every day, be a lifelong learner, get involved in interpersonal interaction, and you get a lot of vacation since you will have the same vacation schedule like your students. Furthermore, you will also have a lot of variability during classes, because you can choose and decide what will happen each day.
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Welcome to Study Education, Scholarships make your study easier thousands of potential scholarships worldwide are found here. Students or any are supported to find scholarship as the easiest way ever Anyone can search for scholarships on the site without any cost or personal information required. By offering online scholarship searching, we make finding scholarships much easier. We bring students the highest quality scholarships from the best education centres in the world. We wish to make their study path easier with scholarships. Our scholarships serve all students. Whether you’re a high school student, college student, or anyone with the expectation of chasing the learning path, you are welcomed to our site. We wish to support all students throughout the world, simultaneously, and want to help students having the expectation of studying abroad find a scholarship.
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Are you seeking a career whereby you spend most of your time in a classroom? Do you like working with children? Have you always had a passion and love for influencing the lives of others in a positive way? Let your dream become reality and apply for an Education and Teaching degree!
What is Education and Teaching?
Education and Teaching is a degree that offers much more than just lecturing kids and students. It is truly a rewarding job as this degree will teach you everything you need to know about lecturing children and students. Not only will you teach children all sort of things, they will teach you as well. They will leave an impact on you and you will find yourself surrounded by fun, enthusiastic, and honest youngsters.
Education is the study of the process of receiving and giving systematic instruction. As a degree, it mixes a theoretical grounding in the history, anthropology, sociology and economics of education, psychology and human development, and applied courses on teaching methods.
Different degrees may specialise in areas such as early childhood education, health and physical education, primary teaching, secondary teaching or secondary teaching/vocational education. They can also allow you to specialise in teaching a specific subject matter.
Why should you study Education and Teaching?
There are several reasons as to why you should study Education and Teaching and become a teacher. One of the many reasons is job security. A recession will not cut off teachers since they will always be needed. You get to laugh every day, be a lifelong learner, get involved in interpersonal interaction, and you get a lot of vacation since you will have the same vacation schedule like your students. Furthermore, you will also have a lot of variability during classes, because you can choose and decide what will happen each day.
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