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.
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