Tutor Vista: Taking tutions outside India

Tutor Vista: Tutor Vista is a global education services company. It offers online tutoring services for students in various subjects and languages.
• A student gets enrolled through subscription and tutors are selected through a rigorous process
• A student select the time and subject he/she wants to get trained on. Tutor Vista selects the teacher available for the time slot and fixes the session
• Sessions are conducted over Tutor Vista’s platform. Student and teacher interact over VOIP, chat. The platform also has a white board to make it effective
• The central system is like Air Traffic Control Room – sessions are lined up for take off and closure. There are standby tutors line up in case a tutor drops out at the last minute
• Many tutors are professionals like Software Engineers, MBA Students, Radio Jockeys, Air Traffic Controllers and Army Officers apart from qualified teachers. This ensures a rich coaching with unique perspectives
• While several companies offer fixed content package for a course, Tutor Vista model is based on personalized and one-on-one coaching
• Started with one tutor and one student. Within 18 months had 400 tutors and 10,000 students
• Success of the business and need has led to demand from Korea, Canada, UK. Has teachers across the globe for students across geographies. Its currently expanding into teaching various subjects
• In November 2006, it was named the exclusive online tutoring provider for the Microsoft MSN Encarta online education portal.
• In April, 2007 Vocabulary.com engaged TutorVista as its exclusive tutoring service provider, giving it access to more than 19,000 schools.