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The world is your classroom.

Live, small-group classes where families book vetted, independent educators directly, not software sold to schools. Learners from kindergarten to adult join from wherever life takes them: the RV, the living room, a café in France, or a mountaintop in a national park. Educators teach the subjects they love, set their own price, and keep 82% of every booking, so their skills are truly rewarded. All of this is built on a Christian foundation and open to everyone.

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Free to join · Pay per class · No subscriptions

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CLASS FROM
ANYWHERE
✦ LIVE ✦
For your family Homeschool classes K–12 that travel with you, family classes, and transcripts kept for you. Create a family account → For yourself Adults 18+. Learn the language before the trip, or the history behind the trail. Start learning → For educators Your price, your schedule, your classroom. You keep 82% of every booking. Apply to teach →

Easier than
pre-algebra.

No subscriptions. No curriculum lock-in. Book one class or a whole semester.

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Make a free account

Parents add each kid's grade and interests. Adults sign up for themselves.

Create your account → 2

Pick a class you'll love

Browse by subject and grade. Price and schedule right up front.

Browse classes → 3

Show up and talk back

Join live on Google Meet in a small group. Cameras on, hands up, minds open.

How classes work →
A family shares a picnic lunch outside their travel trailer at a campsite

Homeschool on the move.

Road-schooling, RV life, or just a long weekend at the lake: class comes with you. Hand off the subjects you'd rather not teach; you stay in charge.

A smiling woman works on her laptop at a sunny outdoor cafe

Curiosity doesn't graduate.

Log in from the porch, a campsite, or a hotel room between meetings. Learn a language, a skill, or the story of wherever you're headed next.

Learn it, then
go see it.

Classes paired with real places. Study the geology before you hike the canyon, the battle before you walk the field, and the state before you cross its border.

Coming soon

National parks

Geology, wildlife, and the stories behind the parks on your route.

Coming soon

Historic sites

Battlefields, missions, and monuments, studied before you stand there.

Coming soon

State-by-state road trips

A state's history, people, and landmarks, learned before the drive.

Coming soon

Faith heritage

Church history and the places where it happened.

Know a place well? Teach a place-based class →  ·  Tell me when these open →

Made for
homeschool families.

Learn together, and let us keep the records.

Available now

Family classes

A parent and kids join the same live session and learn side by side. One class, one conversation, and something to talk about at dinner.

Great for history before a trip, Bible study, art, and anything better learned together. Look for the Family class tag: one booking covers you and the kids you pick.

How family classes work →
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Group registration

Co-ops and homeschool groups can register several learners at once, with one payment, to take a class together in the same place. Look for the Groups welcome tag. Every learner still gets their own transcript and certificates.

How group registration works →

Your homeschool records, kept for you

  • TranscriptsCompleted classes, hours, and dates for each student.
    Available now
  • CertificatesEarned by subject at 15, 40, 80, and 120 hours.
    Available now
  • Portfolio exportWork, educator feedback, and hours in one PDF.
    Available now
  • State-by-state helpWhat your state asks homeschoolers to keep. See the guide →
    Available now

Openly Learning isn't an accredited school. Transcripts and certificates are records of learning, not school credit.

our story —

Great teachers shouldn't be stuck in one building.

Why Openly Learning

As a professor, educator, and homeschool parent, co-founder John Hoogeveen kept seeing the same need:

  • Families wanted flexible, high-quality classes.
  • Adults wanted practical teaching from people with real-world experience.
  • Gifted educators wanted to teach beyond the walls of one institution.

Openly Learning was built in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to meet that need.

What we believe

Education shouldn't be limited by geography, institutions, or one-size-fits-all models. Openly Learning connects learners with passionate educators through small, live online classes, in academics, life skills, ministry, the arts, and more.

Educators teach on their own terms. Teachers, professors, ministry leaders, artists, tradespeople, and other experts build classes around what they know and reach students wherever they are.

Everyone has something valuable to learn, and something valuable to teach.

Meet our founders

Dr. John C. Hoogeveen III

Dr. John C. Hoogeveen III

Educator · Author · Missionary · Lifelong learner

John has spent his life helping people discover, develop, and share their God-given gifts. For more than 12 years he has taught hundreds of students: high schoolers, college students, adult learners, ministry leaders, and homeschoolers. He has taught in classrooms, churches, conferences, and online.

On the mission field, he developed and led educational workshops around the world. Back in the United States, he taught communication at several Michigan universities, where he saw both the strengths and the limits of traditional education.

Credentials

  • M.A., Religion: Global Studies
  • D.Min. (ABD), Religion: Discipleship
  • Ph.D. in Communication (in progress), Liberty University
  • Author of Awakening the Sleeping Giant, The Student Success Tool Book, and Lines
Our faith

Rooted in faith.
Wide open to wonder.

Openly Learning was started by Christian educators who believe every learner is made in God's image. Bible and worldview classes sit right beside algebra and art, and every class honors our Christian values.

“In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”
Colossians 2:3 (KJV)

for adults —

Ministry & discipleship track.

Grow as a disciple and as a leader. Live classes for small-group leaders, pastors, ministry volunteers, and anyone who wants to go deeper in their faith.

The track is shaped by our co-founder's doctoral work in discipleship and years of training ministry leaders on the mission field.

Tell me when it opens

What you'll find

  • Bible study and theology
  • Discipleship and mentoring
  • Church leadership and teaching
  • Practical Christian living
Coming soon

Teach the class you always wished existed.

Certified teachers, homeschool parents, subject experts, college faculty: you bring the passion. We bring the families and handle payments and paperwork.

Apply to teach → How vetting works
82%

of every booking is yours, deposited by Stripe.

$0

to list classes. No monthly fees.

You decide

price, schedule, class size, and syllabus.

$35

one-time background check keeps every family safe.

Collect passport stamps as you teach: Foundations · 25 hrs Proficiency · 50 hrs Mastery · 100 hrs Distinction · 250 hrs

Pick your next
destination.

Hover or tap a subject to see where it could take you.

Good
questions.

Every educator is vetted

Resume or CV review, a background check, and personal approval before anyone teaches.

Small groups

Educators cap their own class sizes, so every learner is known.

Safe checkout

Payments run through Stripe. We never see your card number.

How do live classes work?

After you book, a Join on Google Meet button appears on your dashboard. Join from any laptop or tablet with an internet connection, wherever you are.

Can you help with homeschool records?

Yes. Each student gets a transcript, certificates, and a portfolio of sessions, work and educator feedback, ready to print or save as a PDF. Our state-by-state guide shows what your state asks you to keep.

Can we get a refund?

Class bookings are final, with two exceptions: if an educator cancels or misses a session, you're refunded for that session; and if we remove an educator because of an incident (for example, misconduct or false credentials), learners in that educator's classes are refunded.

Do I have to be a Christian to join?

No. Everyone is welcome to learn with us. Educators don't have to be Christian either, but every class must respect our Christian values, and Bible and worldview classes are taught only by Christian educators.

How is my child's information protected?

We store only your student's first name, grade, and interests. Educators see a student's first name only for classes you've booked.

All questions & safety details →

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