If you’re posh and live in the upper east side of Manhattan and want your children to get the very best academic tutoring and test preparation on the planet, spend some time and money on Janna Taylor over at Mind Full Tutors. For the rest of you who want your child to have the sort of support and access to educational resources usually reserved for your doctor and lawyer friends, please check out GlobalScholar.com.
Global Scholar is different than many other online tutoring services. “Unlike a typical situation where you walk into a brick and mortar tutoring establishment and are presented with a tutor, GlobalScholar gives you the freedom to choose who you want as a tutor.” What makes this special is that it isn’t just a giant room in India with loads and loads of outsourced tutors — GlobalScholar.com is a tutoring marketplace, a little like Ebay. The best pre-approved tutors get to use the invisible hand of the free market to set prices based on quality, popularity, “availability, price, experience, ratings, and reviews.” As it is an online tutoring platform, it acts as a free market for tutors — it uses the entire world of online tutors to define price and reputation.
Even if you’re too old for tutoring or if you’re really too proud and think you can make it into a brilliant college all on your lonesome, you can still use GlobalScholar’s CollegeFinder. College Finder helps you “discover your future college today.” Looks a little better than winging it by relying on your moronic school counselor or that passé USNews.com: America’s Best Colleges 2008 — and we know that list is purely political and lame.
GlobalScholar.com is doing the same thing as eBay, but in the realm of education. Where those who have what to offer; their educational services, can do so on our tutoring platform. Many measures are taken beforehand to assure the quality of tutors on the site. At the end of the day, much is dependent on student and parent feedback…which is equivalent to customer reviews. Education should be held to the same standards of retail; if not more! You can watch a site demo.
Online tutoring is not a new thing. There are several great companies who are doing a terrific job in this space. Tutor.com and TutorVista.com are two solid examples. A key differentiator between them and GlobalScholar.com is that those companies actually employ the tutors. Whereas on GlobalScholar.com, tutors are freelancers offering services on an online. It is the tutors who decide how much they want to pay, what they will teach and when they will teach.
GlobalScholar.com is a tutoring platform. And while there are similar sites of this genre, GlobalScholar.com is truly unique for many reasons, several of which I will enumerate off the cuff.
On GlobalScholar.com the student and parent have the option to choose an online tutor based on:
- availability
- price
- experience
- ratings & reviews
Unlike a typical situation where you walk into a brick and mortar tutoring establishment and are presented with a tutor, GlobalScholar.com gives you the freedom to choose who you want as a tutor. Unlike TutorVista.com which offers tutors in India and relies on an off shoring business model, on GlobalScholar.com you can choose a tutor who lives in the USA.
GlobalScholar.com also offers a variety of tutoring models.
1) Instant Tutoring – this is the on-demand version of tutoring
2) Scheduled Tutoring – this is the scheduled version of tutoring
3) Homework Help – this is an asynchronous tutoring model
4) Self-Guided Courses – this is content based tutoring
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GlobalScholar has definitely a great experience for my kid but I would rate Transtutors better. They have more experienced tutor and they understand explain exactly the way my son understand. this is really good about Transtutors. hats off to them.
TRANSTUTORS ??
HUH ! THEY DON’T HAVE EVEN PROPER RESOURCES.
This company committing fraud by cheating on homework for students. Run from this company they make you fail grades!!!!
So Kal Raman the CEO of Globalscholar is actually working on taking the company IPO in India now. Gee, I wonder what happened to the IPO here… Oh I know, he screwed that off like he screwed off every other endeavor he’s undertaken. All he does at GlobalScholar is hire Yes men who are completely incompetent and dimwitted (usually Indians from his hometown or University in Chennai who know nothing about the needs of America’s highly demanding consumers). Then, he hires truly talented and very competent Americans and places them UNDER his idiotic cronies. Invariably, the smart ones leave. The suckers stay at their slave jobs because they have families to feed and they fall into Kal’s great trap. The man is as crooked as they come. He is a blood slurping SWINE. God bless him. God bless him. God bless Kal.