USA outsources tutoring services from India
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A new website will help teachers in India to start their own business of teaching students in the USA. And, it is rightly so that the new branch of outsourcing to catch the worlds attention i.e. Educational Services Outsourcing , is the latest trend to expect over 100,000 teachers in India to log on to
http://www.tutorswithoutlimits.com to set themselves up in their Internet business of online tutoring.
The brainchild of IT entrepreneur, Glynn Willet, who found Tutors Without Limits (TWL) with his son, TWL incorporates the new Web 2.0 AJAX technology to create the Lesson Board, which is just the most advanced learning system for teaching on the Internet. This is just like teaching in my classroom! one of the first teachers to use the Lesson Board is quoted as saying, in a press release on the subject.
The back to school, signaling the start of USs academic session in September, will now provide parents and students in the country with cost effective, quality education related help any time of the day or night. Usually, US students pay $40 an hour for tutoring services in America. However, last year, call centres in India started offering these same services for as low as $14 to $20 an hour. With the launch of TWL, tutors will now be offering their services directly to students in the US at prices determined by them.
However, Raghavendra Rao, a mathematics online tutor teaching a number of children in California from Bangalore, told IT Wire, 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 they are getting value for their money. 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.
This, on top of the fact, that more and more American students are heading to India, than ever before. For decades, it was the dream of a significant section of Indian students to study and then work in the United States. Now, a reverse trend, albeit with a smaller number to begin with, may take shape as American students come to India to learn.
Led by Senator Michael B Enzi, an American delegation comprising of among others, Margaret Spellings - US Secretary of Education, is on a mission to India to study the sub-continents educational system, and how it is able to churn out a large number of highly-skilled professionals. To quote Spellings: ... As Secretary of Education, I am anxious to see how you all, and how others around the world develop human capital and talent. Certainly, you (India) have done that and you are doing that. Thats why so many industries and American companies are coming here to grow and expand, Spellings told the Press Trust of India.
After an earlier visit, along with Enzi and other Senators Lamar Alexander and Johnny Isakson, to Infosys, Texas Instruments, GEs R&D centre in Bangalore, where they also met some Google officials, she stressed the teams keenness to learn what India was doing on the two fronts of innovation and competitiveness.
Emphasizing that US would encourage American students to come to India to learn, she held out a promise of accelerating numbers, exclaiming: Yes, absolutely, to the expected rise in the number of American students to study in Indian educational institutions.
According to one estimate, there are around 70,000 Indian students studying in the US, while about 780-American students are enrolled in India. Spelling said: Thats going to change overnight (more American students will come to India to learn). At Infosys, there are 300-permanent employees, who will come here for six months to two years from the US and then go back. These are growing programs and will grow overtime.
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GregorioIvanoff - 23 Jul 2007
Keywords:
curricula recommendations,
educational system,
education system,
workforce education,
learning system,
price signals,
teams perspicacity,
outsourcing,
business,
countries,
India
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terceirização de serviços educacionais
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