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The Where and When of Online Learning

What has occupied our focus of late is how to bring our offerings more directly to where and when students learn.  We originally devised the OfficeHours browser extension as a way to enable instant connectivity - no matter where they were on the web, people could be easily reached and then routed into a live session with another student and/or teaching assistant.  Going forward, we are continuing to find ways to improve the usefulness of the browser extension by making it more than a switchboard.  We want OfficeHours' collaboration tools to co-exist seamlessly on the same page as a Coursera video or a Wikipedia article or wherever else online learning may occur.  To give you a preview of things to come, check out these projects that we have drawn inspiration from: Gravity and ReadrBoard.

Though OfficeHours is a business, we are motivated by the extraordinary potential that online education has to shape the lives of those it reaches. But democratizing access to education does not meant that all education has to come from one source.  One of the most interesting articles we saw this week was a profile of a company called Descomplica that is leading the online learning revolution in Brazil.  While it has been up to this point a video content provider, the company has aspirations to become "the go-to, full-service online classroom for Brazil."  These ambitions are an encouraging reminder for us that the services we are building and the problems we are solving have a truly global marketplace.

As always, if you have any thoughts, ideas, or questions, please don't hesitate to be in touch - [email protected]. And you can always follow along with our progress as a user by creating an account at OfficeHours.co.