California Tuition Admissions, Application and Fees

Susan Edwards asked:

In California, a middle school student, recovering from a long-term illness;  who could not attend his school for long and cannot afford to go out for tuitions; checks his online tutoring website and schedules a class for his lessons and homework assignments. In Illinois, a busy professional who cannot speak Spanish, collaborates on an online tutoring website and registers for weekend classes to meet his business requirement of dealing with Spanish.  A number of factors are driving the expansion of online education in the United States and around the world, chief among them being the growing demand for specialized knowledge in today’s complex, information-based society. Not only is knowledge expanding but the ease with which it can be shared is becoming vital. Advances in digital technology, moreover, allow for much greater interaction with instructors and other students also allowing multimedia applications and real-time conversations for anyone with a reliable broadband connection to the Internet.

Parents/Children can schedule appointments 24 hours in advance or even earlier with the tutor and also identify which areas s/he would like to be helped with. The sessions are conducted by qualified, experienced teachers who understand the child’s school texts and other relevant material to ensure that she is taught in line with the school curriculum.

Schools, tuition centers or distance learning institutes can also use this service to deliver instructional material by the use of its cutting-edge technology and highly qualified instructors. Apart from the obvious advantages of online tutoring; like 24 hrs availability and learning homework; assignment help is another feature adding glitters to the concept. The online education movement has taken pace at very high rate with India mentoring the system. Various online portals like tutorbene.com working in the same line today have made tutoring available just-a-click away. Established with the vision to make tutoring fun and affordable for all learners, tutorbene.com is working as a Home Learning Service Provider serving as a platform where the private tutor and student meet for personalized lessons. It offers academic, professional and hobby lessons. Teaching institutes will not mean the same again because Tutorbene is redefining their role in this digital era. Tutorbene.com whose slogan is “Anytime, Anywhere Learning,” has launched a number of special summer packages along with its regular courses to help students spend their vacations in the most cognitive way and earn a life time experience of courses like creative writing and Vedic mathematics which become a little difficult with the regular school or college.

Instructions through a real time tutor, educational games and simulations can engage students in higher-level cognitive thinking, such as interpreting, analyzing, discovering, evaluating, acting, and problem solving. Recent technical advances in technology have created virtual worlds which have significantly expanded the capabilities of user interaction and development within these simulated worlds. Time is not far when India would be the most respectable hub for education owing to its capability to integrate its ethical values and standards with the latest technology advances at much lesser costs than any of the nations.

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Prashant Yadav asked:


Personalized online tutoring is fast becoming a popular concept in the US. The appeal lies in the personal attention devoted to the learner, ready availability, convenience of use and increased affordability due to off-shoring model followed by several tuition providers.

From the learner’s perspective, it is important to understand what online tuition is supposed to deliver and what should the characteristics of quality online instruction be.

What is Quality

Online tutoring in its best form is supposed to cater to the individual learning aptitude, personality and pace of the learner while imparting knowledge, skills and application. Thus quality of an online learning program needs to be measured by how much knowledge has the learner grasped and retained and how well can he apply it to problem solving.

Parameters affecting quality

Since by definition, online tutoring has to cater to the individual differences between learning aptitude of the learners, any discussion on quality should exclude it from parameters affecting learning outcome. Effective online tutoring is supposed to teach no matter whether the learner is fast or slow and that is the determinant of its quality.

Thus the factors affecting the quality have to be intrinsic to the process and operation of providing online tutoring. Broadly, these factors can be categorized as:

• Instructor quality

• Process control

• Content quality, and,

• Technology & infrastructure

Instructor quality

Online instruction takes personalization of teaching to the next level thereby making the role of instructor even more significant.

An enthusiastic teacher with great subject matter expertise and teaching aptitude can make the online classes very exciting. The novelty of learning online from a teacher sitting thousands of miles away becomes an exciting prospect.

Thus, in terms of instructor quality, it is important to ensure that the instructor has sound knowledge of the subject matter, basic teaching aptitude, great communication skills and in case of offshore teachers, command over spoken English including neutralized accent and an appreciation of cross-cultural nuances.

While the subject matter expertise and teaching aptitude is to be tested before recruitment, proper training enables the instructor to effectively communicate to students across the globe.

From a process perspective, the implications are:

a) Online tutoring provider should have stringent recruitment criteria to ensure teachers with good subject knowledge and teaching skills

b) Systematic training be provided to build online teaching skills to an alien audience (eg students in an entirely different country)

Process control

Online tutoring is a person-to-person service. To ensure quality of interaction between the teacher and the student, robust quality monitoring and quality control mechanisms are necessary, especially while a session is going on.

Real time monitoring contributes significantly towards ensuring quality. Having an academic counselor apart from the teacher and reverse feedback mechanisms from student to the teacher and academic counselor helps build accountability.

Interestingly, several online tutoring providers follow a distributed model of teaching where the teacher teaches from his/her own home. Several other companies provide a matching service between online tutors and students. While both these models reduce the overheads, they make real time quality control quite difficult. For example, a ringing doorbell or a bawling kid in the background may completely ruin the continuity of a learning session in the teacher-teaches-from-home model.

Having a centralized teaching facility and the tutors as full time employees goes a long way in building and maintaining quality tutoring. The formal office environment generates professionalism and a shared service culture so very important in ensuring great person-to-person service.

Content quality

Content comprises of the teaching material, books, notes and exercises.

Since the basic premise of online tutoring is total personalization, using standard teaching material greatly reduces the effectiveness of instruction. Experience shows that a single concept can be taught in several different ways and different students respond differently to each of these approaches. Thus, it is important to assess which approach to take for which student and present the study material according to the same. Standard text or notes become pretty ineffective at this stage.

Thus, it is important for online tutoring providers to have dedicated content development function. The idea is to customize the study material as per the learner’s requirement so that benefits of personalization made possible by offshore online tutoring can be passed onto the student.

Technology & infrastructure

Technology and infrastructure play an extremely important facilitator’s role – great infrastructure and technology does not automatically ensure great teaching but lack of it does ensure no teaching.

The voice conferencing software, whiteboard etc should be reliable and not lead to wasted time in trying to get the session run smoothly.

Contrary to popular belief, teaching online students across half the earth calls for more than just a PC with broadband. It is important that the tutoring provider invests enough in infrastructure and processes to ensure quality tutoring consistently

Conclusion

Offshore online tutoring making quality personalized help accessible to all is a great promise. Quality control of service delivery is extremely important to impart effective learning.

Proper recruitment & training processes for tutors, real time process monitoring & control, content customization and adequate technology & infrastructure are extremely important to providing exceptional online tutoring, consistently.

About the Author

Prashant Yadav is the founder of personalized online tutoring provider Etutelage.

An avid educationist, his primary interests include technology assisted learning and teaching methodologies. Along with his teaching experience, he brings valuable business and technology expertise having held various leadership roles across the US and India in companies like Coca Cola, Mentor Graphics and Atrenta.

He is an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, the foremost business school in India and an Electrical Engineer from the prestigious IIT Kharagpur.

About the Company

Etutelage is an online tutoring services provider bringing affordable study help to K-12 students all across the US. The company is a fast growing player in this new field.

Etutelage utilizes the large pool of qualified and trained math and science instructors from India to bring a distinctive cost advantage with excellent teaching quality to students in the US. The stress on strong pedagogical processes ensures Etutelage produces tremendous improvements in student performance.

The teaching and curriculum development facilities are based in Noida, India while the sales office is in Santa Clara, California.



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