The most profound expertise in the world has historically been reserved for executive suites and graduate seminars. We believe that same depth—the kind built alongside the people who write the textbooks—should be available to young people, long before college.
ClassHour partners with companies, governments, and institutions to bring the curriculum, the faculty, and the spirit of discovery from universities like Harvard, MIT, Oxford, and Stanford directly to the next generation. We design and deliver turnkey programs so that your organization can offer young people something extraordinary.
Our founders spent over a decade at MIT designing the programs that defined modern experiential and online learning at scale.
Our mission is to build new pathways that bridge motivation and opportunity—and to partner with organizations who believe that investing in young minds is the most consequential investment of all.
Erdin founded MIT Bootcamps and co-founded the MITx MicroMasters program—two initiatives that pioneered MIT’s approach to hybrid learning and together reached learners in over 100 countries. He produced MIT’s first massive open online courses on entrepreneurship, enrolling hundreds of thousands of learners and earning translation into six languages. A graduate of both Harvard and MIT, Erdin received the Patrick J. McGovern Entrepreneurship Award for his contributions to the study and practice of entrepreneurship. ClassHour is the next chapter of that work—bringing world-class learning to young people through partnerships with forward-thinking organizations.
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Every program we build for our partners follows from a small set of decisions about who teaches, how the room feels, and what the technology is allowed to do.
Every program is designed and led by a working professor or practitioner from a top-tier university—the people who write the syllabus, not the ones who repackage it. Your participants learn from the source.
Small cohorts. Real seminar discussion. Young learners are not well served by another video to fall asleep to—they are served by being seen, called on, and challenged in real time.
We use AI to prepare the room, personalize practice, and free our faculty from busywork—never to replace the human at the front of it. The technology recedes; the teacher stays central.
Whether you’re a company investing in the children of your workforce, a government building youth initiatives, or an institution looking for a best-in-class learning partner—we’d be glad to talk.