High school student Jocelyn Hernandez has been distance learning at home since August 2020 in Los Angeles
High school student Jocelyn Hernandez has been distance learning at home since August 2020 in Los Angeles AFP / Robyn Beck

Industries across the world, and in every sector have been faced with extremely troubling circumstances over the past 18 months, with the pandemic bringing some companies to the brink of extinction and forcing others to rapidly evolve. The education sector was not exempt from this evolution and was one of the areas that took the hardest hits. Despite these hardships, however, there is something to be said that this evolution was needed, to bring education, support and group learning into the modern age

Teachers, parents, students, and tutors have all experienced a near immediate change in how everyday life is conducted. Whether people like it or not, technology is here and has moved to the forefront of how education is carried out in contemporary society. Traditional teaching methods, while still useful and needed, are starting to take a back seat - and why shouldn’t it. Education isn’t simply limited to the pages of one or two textbooks anymore, the internet has an almost endless sea of resources and opportunities to take advantage of - something companies such as Studypool are leading the way with.

Through Studypool, more and more students every day are exploring the possibilities of having thousands of dedicated tutors at their fingertips, ready and waiting to help with questions. Studypool’s Q&A service brings a more personalized approach to online learning - large video classes can be awkward to sit through for all involved, and with multiple people learning at the same time, but at different paces - it’s harder than before to get a teacher’s attention, or to get that one-on-one, dedicated explanation that can be the difference between you understanding a subject or not. This is what the Q&A process is designed for at Studypool. Students ask questions, pick a tutor that suits their timeframe and budget and have a personalized session with the tutor who will work diligently to ensure that the question is explained and answered in a way that suits you.

Working together and collaboration is such an important part of schoolwork, teaching social skills, team building, and the ability to digest and learn from differing viewpoints. Due to most of the school taking place outside of the classroom in previous months, a lot of students have been deprived of this aspect of togetherness and the benefits of a supportive, social and study network. Luckily, online learning on platforms such as Studypool are perfect places for students, teachers, graduates, and tutors to come together, share resources, viewpoints, and notes - helping each other learn and benefit from it, both in an educational and financial sense! The Studypool Notebank service has thousands of study resources just waiting to be discovered - these can be categorized and searched by subjects, questions or even through specific colleges, so alumni can continue to help and support the students following in their footsteps. Students can also upload their own resources and notes, and if they are bought by their peers, earn real money, which can make a palpable difference to student life!

Running parallel to their Notebank service, Studypool also offers a free study guide section. This complimentary resource has endless amounts of literature reviews, from lecture hall classics to recent bestsellers - all with character breakdowns, chapter summaries and analysis, motif and theme reviews and everything else you would need to capture the essence of a book (without having to read 400 pages!)

Signing up to be a student on Studypool couldn’t be easier, and you can be working with a tutor, or utilizing the Notebank library or study guides within minutes - giving the control of your own education back to you.