Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Gooru


Gooru is an online study tool that allows you to explore and study over 2,600 standards-aligned and personalized study guides. Study guides cover fifth grade through high school math and science topics, and resources include digital textbooks, animations, instructor videos and more. All resources are vetted and organized by teachers or Gooru’s content experts, so you don’t have to sort through the mess of subpar educational resources available online yourself.

Gooru also makes it easy for you to connect with your worldwide peers to make learning a social experience. Post questions to an active community of students, teachers and experts, or find friends and peers to study with.

Best of all, Gooru adapts to you. Based on the topics you study and your performance on self-assessments, Gooru suggests resources and study guides that will help you master the concepts. You can track your study habits and monitor your performance on any of the topics you study. 
Gooru’s mission is to honor the human right to education, so we’re delivering standards-aligned educational resources to students all over the world – for free.

Thanks to Open Educational Resources (OER), which are high-quality, open licensed, online educational materials, Gooru is able to harness and share the best web resources at no cost