Edtech Series: Outschool

Amir Nathoo, Outschool, Educational Company

I’m so glad that today’s guest is here. As soon as COVID hit and schools closed I wasn’t sure what to do with my kid. And so I started reading up on how to teach my kid.

When I saw Eric Ries mention Outschool I had to check it out. It was such a great resource I actually sent Eric a thank you note.

Amir Nathoo is the founder of Outschool, which allows K-12 students to take small group classes from anywhere.

Amir Nathoo

Outschool

Amir Nathoo is the founder of Outschool, which allows K-12 students to take small group classes from anywhere.

Andrew: Hey, they’re freedom fighters. You’re looking at or listening to the last two people left in San Francisco. Everybody else is leaving. Um, but I’m so glad that today’s guest is, is here. As soon as COVID hit and schools closed. I wasn’t sure what to do with my kid. And so I started reading up on how to teach my kid.

I started looking for resources and Eric Reese, the founder of the lean startup, he put together a page full of all these resources for parents who are homeschooling. I think he might be homeschooling his kids. And so it comes from Eric. I looked at it, I tried this one thing out school, I thought, huh?

That’s pretty interesting. You pick from a bunch of different classes. You see the teacher, you see the ratings for the classes and my sons can sit in front of the iPad or whatever Chromebook we were giving them at the time and learn directly by talking to a teacher, not by watching a video. And it was just so...

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