After interviewing five different people, I have come across these ideas and thoughts when it comes to try and setting my boundaries for my opportunity. My opportunity is developing an app that connects students in similar classes to try and help better their grades in those classes. After interviewing the five people, I have been able to define the boundaries and find a more clear a set of people who fall outside of that boundary. For the Who, it is students who are in similar classes but already have ways to branch out and meet other students. In a college town, most of the students in this case fall into greek life, where they have hundreds of friends in their fraternity or sororities that chances are someone else is in the classes they are in, so they have an easy way to connect and try to get help. My friend Rob who is in ATO here at UF who I interviewed said it is easy to find someone who is in the same class as you or someone who has taken the class to try and get help. Olivia, who is in a sorority said the same thing and it makes easy to get help or form study groups with people you already know. It is also other students who use the tutoring services in town to help them study and with that, they do not need to go and try and find other students to help or ask questions to other students because they have the tutoring service at their finger tips. Justin said "I used to Studyedge for my harder classes and I never had reach out to other students because Studyedge provided everything I needed". The need for my idea differs from other needs when a student does not have the opportunity of joining or paying for such organizations or groups and just wants to branch out to their fellow classmates for help with their classes. Some kids are like that, that they just don't wanna join a fraternity or sorority and don't wanna pay for a tutoring service, so they just do it all on their own. Well with my idea, they would not have to do it on their own anymore and they can reach out to other kids who are in similar situations as they are. The outsiders have access to multiple channels or getting extra help outside of the classroom where someone in the boundary does not.
Inside the Boundary:
-A student who wishes to get extra help in school who does not have the ease of access to other students.
-The need is to connect with other students for help in school.
-The need exists because someone wants to do better in school.
Outside the Boundary:
-Someone who has the ease of connecting with students through multiple channels.
-They have a way to reach out and get help with their classes because of organizations or clubs they are in.
-They feel as though they don't need someone else help or they don't like the idea of connecting with other students who they don't know.
You’re right on point, having a partner or a group has personally helped me a lot. It also gives me peace of mind to work with somebody rather than being totally on my own. Last semester I was part of a group for a project, after we finished we still communicated in the group chat for other class related topics, helping each other out further than just the project.
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ReplyDeleteI think this fits a clear problem that many people face, specifically those who come from out of state and are without clear social interactions before they step foot on campus. This opportunity will always be relevant in some way because of the constant nee for students who want to be better in school and working in groups can be an effective way of improving grades.
ReplyDeleteI agree with where you imagined this boundary to lie. The niche for this product will definitely fall on people who want to be connected with their peers but lack good means of doing so. Ensuring the product focuses on the school oriented aspects and not being another social platform will be important. I also agree that some students may fall outside the boundary because they do not want to connect with students whom they don't know.
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