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Monday, 07 April 2008
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Tutoring In USA
All over the world parents have a problem helping their kids in studies and it is really difficult for parents to help kids in subjects like Maths, Physics or Chemistry. Now, imagine if they can simply go to their computer and get a tutor for their child to help him/her with the homework or with regular class stuff, it's a huge relief for parents.
24hourstutor is providing that relief to the parents by employing highly qualified and experienced tutors for teaching kids. Tutors are well trained to understand the child’s educational needs and hence it helps children perform and grow better in studies.
Tutor and student are connected with each other through a two-way voice conference along with a sharing whiteboard, so that both of them can see what other is writing. This way of tutoring is better known as Online Tutoring and 24hourstutor.com has somewhat achieved an iconic status in Online Tutoring.
The quality of tutoring service that 24hourstutor provides has made it very popular in USA and UK. Though there are many other online tutoring firms that are operating in USA but there is always a doubt on the quality and credibility of their services. In fact some of the companies who were the early entrants in the business became quite popular initially because of the new concept but since then they haven’t really improved or evolved on anything. It is very important for tutoring service provider to evaluate and assess the students strengths and weaknesses before actually going for teaching the lesson, which is absent in almost all tutoring companies and hence doing no good to the child. I think simply giving a lecture or helping them with homework is not the solution, a child needs an overall development in order to ensure his/her progress in studies and in school. In my opinion this where 24hourstutor scores much higher than other tutoring companies and it is this overall development of child that has made 24hourstutor hugely popular in USA. The main features of 24hourstutor are the 24x7 availability of tutors, customized lesson plans for every individual which is designed by a special team of experts that comprises of experienced tutors and child psychology specialists, highly qualified and experienced tutors who have atleast masters degree or 5 years of teaching experience and only one-on-one tutoring.
Looking at these features I think its high time for parents to wake up and start thinking about the choice that they have made earlier. It’s a matter of your child future and he/she deserves more than just a tutor for his/her studies. Its time to rethink about child’s future, go for 24hourstutor.
Wednesday, 06 February 2008
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Online tutoring
When it comes to taking online classes over the Internet, especially free online classes you want to make absolutely sure that they are legitimate which in most of the cases are not. You aren’t just fooling around with something you aren’t going to get out of, but the wasting of your time and efforts. Not all of the free online classes offered on the internet are like this, however most of the free online classes deal with different issues other than major instructional courses. As for me I will rather go for paid tutoring sites that also provide online classes at a very throw away prices and are genuine most of the times, one site that I like it personally is 24hourstutor.com.
In another words the free online classes could mean getting your GED, or learning another language perhaps, something of that nature. However, it really does depend on which web site you are looking at and referring to before you actually know. Then there are free classes that are usually clubbed with the type of subscription you take lets say on a monthly subscription you get 4 days of free tutoring or on a 50 hour subscription you get 3 hours free.
You might want to be sure to read all the print according to the free online classes you take as well, when they say free and you have to pay out all amounts of money on additional materials they say you will need such as software and other items, this is where they could get you as well.
There are some like 24hourstutor.com who charge one time money that too with lots of flexibility and then you don’t have to buy any kind of software or additional material, everything gets included in that payment. This in my opinion is far more better than those who claim to be free but actually costlier in other sense, they might very well be offering free online classes however you’ll pay for quite a bit of software or other things to get through and complete the classes.
Some people like the idea of not having to actually be in a classroom and being able to obtain some kind of skill or learning and it is in fact online classes that can provide this for them and tutoring sites like 24hourstutor.com is really doing some phenomenal job.
Thursday, 17 January 2008
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e-tutoring
Besides, between driving the kids to school, soccer, swimming and basketball, parents felt like they were already making too many trips in the family minivan.
With the cost of a locally based in-home tutor too high to afford, the Strauss decided to try 24hourstutor.com, the company who charges ?.99 per hour for one-on-one tutoring.
24hourstutor.com, which has an office in Birmingham, was founded by Rahul Agarwal, a Chartered Accountant by profession and Ashish Agarwal, a software engineer.
Now with 70 tutors, 24hourstutor.com tutors communicate with their students by voice, instant message and on a whiteboard, software that works like a shared electronic chalk board, enabling both student and teacher to write on the same canvas. 24hourstutor.com doesn uses webcams and videos, so as to provide an absolutely safe Internet environment for the students.
Almost all of the tutors have master's degrees or atleast college degrees with an experience of atleast 5 years, said, Rahul Agarwal. It's common for educated Indians to speak English, in part because of British colonial history and in part because English is valued as the international language of commerce. To make sure they're easily understood, 24hourstutor.com teachers undergo several weeks of training in British culture. One of the first lessons they learn is to expect British students to call them by their first name.
Despite those efforts, some in the education community question whether offshore tutors are familiar with state education standards.
Thursday, 27 December 2007
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E tutoring
In India, hundreds of young teachers with master degree up in their sleeves are helpingstudents in UK and USA by giving online tuition classes to them in all subjects ranging from calculus or chemistry also these tutors help students prepare for the SAT and GMAT exams. There are many companies such as 24hourstutor.com who are running this business and providing online tuitions from class K-12. The tutors' accent is, of course, Indian. For many students in North America, it's completely unfamiliar.
The tutors of e-tutoring companies have to undergo voice and accent training so that they can understand and deliver lectures to the student compatibility; they are also trained in American slang to help bridge the gap.
Technology now lets the student in Canada and a tutor in India talk directly through VoIP (voice-over- Internet) and each see the words, numbers, graphs and diagrams the other is writing (on a virtual whiteboard).
If you look at the total registered user with online tutoring companies such as 24hourstutor.com than about 70 per cent of the students who sign up are in high school; about 20 per cent are in university and rest are in elementary grades.
Mathematics and English are very popular. So are the sciences, physics, biology and chemistry among the most popular one.
Most of the sessions are for an hour, but sometimes students ask for back-to-back sessions and adults who are taking college courses sometimes want more than one hour for a really intense study session.
The major concern for the students are about the curriculum that online tutoring companies follow, though a conscience effort is being made by companies like 24hourstutor.comto take special care of curriculum. The whole curriculum is designed according to the relevancy lets say for UK students, tutors follow UK national curriculum and for USA students they follow state and local district curriculum. So that students feel that they are being taught for the same syllabus that is there in their respective schools and colleges.
Tutors go through rigorous training of approx. 80 hours before they actually take up tutoring, and part of that is training in the American and British accent. After the training the accent usually isn a problem. Still, there are regional accent challenges, and the companies are planning to adjust to them.
There is one more advantage that 24hourstutor.com is offering and that is giving students an option to choose their own specific tutors for the tutoring sessions. They try to set up the session with the same tutor for as long as they stay with the company.
It's so important that middle America, middle Canada, and also lower-income (families) can afford a good education now.
Online tutoring offers such opportunities that anyone can afford e- tutoring now, people have enough money to go for an Internet based approach. Firstly, its flexible for the purpose that you can schedule your one-on-one sessions as per your convenience and secondly, you don have to travel to long distances in order to provide personalized tutoring to your child.
A mathematics tutor with 24hourstutor.com feels that being able to do one-on-one communication over computer with the help of software is a good and very effective way of teaching maths.
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007
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Online tutoring: Preparing for exams
As I was browsing the net one-day, I came across a new and innovative way of preparing for SAT, GCSE and regular subjects like maths, science, English etc. There is a new trend in taking the classes that is through Internet. These tuitions are provided to the students in an online environment and in such a way that there is no difference between in virtual and in real classroom lecture. One such company is 24hourstutor.com, which are providing these online tuitions in UK & USA. The basic aim of these companies is to provide home based tuitions at a very throw away prices which are otherwise very expensive and unaffordable in countries like UK and USA. There is a whole army of teachers in countries like India, Philippines etc. These teachers are well qualified and are increasingly taking up job as an online tutor. Language is never an issue as English is medium of instruction in most of the schools in India.
However, if students want help revising for their exams, the chances are they will be in touch with one of the specialist tutors.
Online education is a multibillion-dollar industry worldwide and citing the opportunities many Indian companies like 24hourstutor.com are bumping in to this business.
24hourstutor.com provides the online tuitions in maths, science and English till K-12. Students get the homework help anytime they wish to. The package costs $75 for a month's tuition and that constitutes of unlimited classes clubbed with various other facilities like assessment tests, mentor facilities etc. Tutors work in shifts giving 24-hour coverage.
Other subjects are likely to go online, as there is an increase demand of online tuitions.
One thing is certain, though, the tutors will not have to talk about the weekend soccer matches in UK or NBA playoffs in USA to gain the confidence of their clients as has happened with other Indian call centres - unless, of course, the SAT or GMAT preparatory courses go online and the topic under discussion is about current affairs.



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