Tutoring via Internet

[bwana]

Ms. Salin is part of a new wave of outsourcing to India: the tutoring of American students. Twice a week for a month now, Ms. Salin, who grew up speaking the Indian language Malayalam at home, has been tutoring Daniela in English grammar, comprehension and writing.

Using a simulated whiteboard on their computers, connected by the Internet, and a copy of Daniela's textbook in front of her, she guides the teenager through the intricacies of nouns, adjectives and verbs.

Daniela, an eighth grader at Malibu Middle School, said, "I get C's in English and I want to score A's," and added that she had given no thought to her tutor being 20,000 miles away, other than the situation feeling "a bit strange in the beginning."

I wonder if Telkom would consider education as an abuse of ADSL?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/education/07tutor.html (NY Times registration is free AFAIK.)

 

[playkiller no.2]

Yeah! sure like Telkom wants to help our children.
Where`s the 50% discount the schools need.

 

[AntiThesis]

yes they would. Not once per gig comes in but certainly at the moment.

 

[Debbie]

Telkom probably would consider it an abuse! At the ADSL hearings, I told Telkom how disturbing it was that they had not made any plans with ICASA to see how ADSL could be used in education in SA.

Telkom didn't care to even respond to my suggestion.