Thursday, 27 December 2007

  • 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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