• http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3769/stanford-u-experiments-with-open-office-hours-on-facebook?utm_medium&utm_source=at

Stanford's transposes the concept of "office hours" to Facebook.  Beginning in March 2009, Stanford has brought a handful of high-profile scholars to the social networking site in an effort to "make its discoveries and knowledge easily and widely accessible online," according to Ian Hsu, the University's director of Internet media outreach. (For an idea of how it works, visit the "office hour" of Professor Emeritus Philip Zimbardo, who came to international fame with the Stanford Prison Experiment, at http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=614090435683&ref=mf .) And for more, see Stanford's press site: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/may6/facebook-050609.html .  Getting an audience of 200 million in conversation about ideas is a great concept, but it begs the real question: How do you get those students in your class to actually come to office hours? Start your own facebook page?