Supercool School Launched!

Supercool School Launched!

On 11.17.09, In Core, Innovation, Technology, by Arun

Today the much awaited SuperCoolSchool was launched. No doubt, it’s the next generation education system, feature packed and web 2.0! More awesomeness after the jump

We’ve always dreamt of an education system that works. It’s not about universities and professors, but people who know, and share. Here is a brief up from the Startup School Blog post:

“Well, let’s think of a simple situation where you are stuck in a simple task like creating a layer in photoshop, or upgrading your operating system, or you just aren’t sure how to install a component in Joomla. Think what would you do first. If this I were at your place, I would first check if any of my “geek” friends (We always have one, don’t we ?) is online to help me out. If I don’t find any, I will simply “tweet” the question and head over to Google and search for the same. And not-so-surprisingly, I find some very easy tutorials posted on various forums and blogs. Or even in form of videos in Youtube or maybe easy step by step slideshows in Slideshare. Sounds familiar? Exactly! Now we’re actually talking. We didn’t find the answer on university books in Google, nor we learnt from our professors. We learnt socially.

How many times have you been to your professors for such simple (sometimes silly) questions? Let me guess, never! And this is what I call Social Media Learning. We are so used to it that we don’t even care to buy guides and DIY books anymore. If you login to facebook, you can easily find about half of your “friends” posting simple questions, same for twitter. We learn easily when taught by a friend or someone like ourselves, who has learnt from his own experience, appreciates the question and is genuinely willing to help, rather than by university professors who, well…whatever.”

Yes! I’m talking about the future of online education! We proudly announce the launch of Supercool School! Now you can have your own online school and impart realtime training to your institution/company. Educate people your own way! Supercool School does for education what blogs have done for publishing – decentralize & democratize it. So far, the custom Supercool School platform was available exclusively for large corporations and entreprise customers. And now it is opened to small businesses and individuals, that’s you – the most awesome people! Here’s what a Supercool School platform can do, super-quick:

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It’s fast and easy! For a limited time, you can have your own online school for $15/month instead of the usual $150/month. If you ever wanted to start something big, this is the best time! If you want to test the powerful features of a Supercool School, ask me for an invite to Startup School. It is one of the schools powered by Supercool School where hundreds of entrepreneurs are learning and sharing knowledge. Thousands of live sessions have already taken place and more classes are going on, more people joining every day.

Here is a Supercool School owner’s manual!

Finally, again from Supercool School blog:

“We put a lot of effort and time into building this next generation education app and started working with some of the most innovative tech companies in silicon valley to test our product internally (empowering employees to teach and study from each other in a better way) resulting in thousands of classes and tons of new and unexpected lessons that we learned about learning within organizations and how people interact on a platform like Supercool School.”

Let me know what you think!