Website to outsource tutoring services from India

www.tutorswithoutlimits.com

New York - A new website will help teachers in India and Pakistan set up their own business of teaching students in the US.

Catching on to the trend of what is being called educational services outsourcing (ESO), www.tutorswithoutlimits.com expects over 100,000 teachers in India and Pakistan to set up their Internet businesses in the next two weeks.

Founded by American IT entrepreneur Glynn Willet and his son, Tutors Without Limits (TWL) incorporates the new Web 2.0 AJAX technology to create the most advanced learning system for teaching on the Internet in a system called the Lesson Board.

Glynn and his brother Steve Willet had earlier founded ATX, a professional tax software company.

‘This is just like teaching in my classroom!’ a press release quoted one of the first teachers to use the Lesson Board as saying.

With the start of the US academic session in September, parents and students in the country will now be able to get help any time of the day or night.

US students usually pay $40 an hour for tutoring services. However, last year, call centres in India started offering these services for as low as $14 to $20 an hour.

Now, with the launch of TWL, tutors will be offering their services directly to students in the US at prices they determine.

However, Raghavendra Rao, a mathematics online tutor who teaches a number of children in California from Bangalore, told ITWire, an Australian IT news website: ‘This will no doubt be good for us, but there are going to be a number of teething problems that would have to be ironed out.

‘The overseas clients have to be sure that they are getting value for their money and at the same time tutors in India should not just scramble for this and let down pupils. That would create a very bad impression and would not be good for the e-learning community.’

According to the press release, the TWL marketplace will quickly sort services based on quality, content, qualifications and recommendations.

Although initially limited to the US, India and Pakistan, TWL services will be launched in Canada, Australia, Europe and Japan within two months.