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Live online tutoring is the process of tutoring in an online environment, with teacher and student interacting in real-time without necessarily being in the same place. This real-time element, whilst presenting a significant technical challenge, sets live online tutoring apart from traditional online tutoring as it attempts to mimic in-person interaction as closely as possible rather than ...
[1] [2] Its online-classroom portal enables students to receive 25-minute English language lessons from fluent English-speaking teachers. [3] [4] Students and teachers communicate via its global classroom platform. [5] In 2017, VIPKid launched a new service, Lingo Bus, to teach Mandarin to students of 5 to 12 years old. [6] [7]
Preply is an online, language-learning marketplace that connects learners and tutors by using a machine-learning-powered algorithm to recommend a tutor for each student. [ 4 ] Preply has grown from a team of 3 to a company of over 500 employees of 60 different nationalities; with offices in Barcelona, New York and Kyiv, employees work across 30 ...
CK-12 was established in 2007 by Neeru Khosla and Murugan Pal as a not-for-profit educational organization. [5] Teacher-generated content was initially made available under Creative Commons Attribution licenses so as to make it simpler, easier, and more affordable for children to access educational resources.
A research project conducted by Boise State University, Boise, ID, to determine the effects of a new program provided by Futurekids for 5th-grade students and teachers concluded the "Technology enriched learning environment had an overall positive effect on reducing a student’s anxiety towards computers and raising their level of enjoyment."
Verbling was founded in 2011 by Jake Jolis, Mikael Bernstein, and Gustav Rydstedt, who met while attending Stanford University. [1] [2] [3] The company's initial platform, Verbling Friends, connected users interested in learning each other's language to each other via videotelephony.
Spotify Kids is a kid-friendly audio streaming mobile app by Swedish company Spotify. It offers curated content for children, including music, audiobooks, lullabies, and bedtime stories, while providing their parents with parental controls. The service is only available to subscribers to Spotify's Premium Family subscription plan.
Universal Kids is a soon to be defunct American children's television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.. The channel launched on September 26, 2005, as PBS Kids Sprout, a preschool-oriented channel established as a joint venture between PBS, Comcast, Sesame Workshop, and HIT Entertainment, as an offshoot of the PBS Kids brand.