A trend in outsourcing is one-on-one outsourcing of services. This is nothing new of course, since when you hire a painter to paint your house, you are already in an outsourcing relationship. New is the fact that internet technology paves the path for new kinds of outsourced services. One-on-one tutoring via the web is such an example. You can hire a tutor to explain different concepts and subject matters. Sometimes with an Indian accent according to CNet News.

One example of these tutoring services is TutorVista.com. This website offers 24-hour online tutoring services for students in all grades through high school. The programs cover a wide variety of regular school subjects and also provides standard tests. I wonder if there also are free peer-to-peer tutoring websites besides these commercial offerings. The main challenge will be the indication of the quality of the tutoring, since you don’t know what you don’t know!

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