Tutor.com Acquires Real Time Learning and Announces New Live Homework Help Service for Public Libraries.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2001 Leading Online Tutoring Online tutoring refers to the process by which knowledge is imparted from a tutor, knowledge provider or expert to a student or knowledge recipient over the Internet. Online tutoring has been around almost as long as the Internet and takes the following form: Service Now Offers Two Options for Growing Library Market, Helping Libraries Expand Services Tutor.com (www.tutor.com), the leading provider of online, one-to-one tutoring for education institutions and students, today announced the acquisition of Real Time Learning, a San Francisco-based provider of online tutoring services for public libraries, community-based organizations and schools. Tutor.com also announced the launch of Live Homework Help, a new service that enables libraries to connect students instantly with qualified tutors for online homework help. Tutor.com now offers two complementary online tutoring services - Live Homework Help and Customized Online Tutoring -- to the burgeoning library market, which is actively leveraging existing investments in technology infrastructure to expand its information service offerings. Tutor.com has acquired the key assets of Real Time Learning (RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; ) and assumes RTL's current contracts for online tutoring programs with public libraries, including the Boston Public Library Boston Public Library, founded in 1852, chiefly through the gift of Joshua Bates. It is the oldest free public city library supported by taxation in the world. Its present building on Copley Square, designed by McKim, Mead, and White, was completed in 1895. and San Francisco Public Library The San Francisco Public Library is a public library system serving the city of San Francisco. Its main library is located in San Francisco's Civic Center, on Larkin Street at Grove. . Tutor.com also assumes RTL's relationships with the James Irvine James Irvine may refer to:
"Acquiring Real Time Learning and their successful library programs is the perfect complement to Tutor.com's focus in the public library market," said George Cigale, CEO of Tutor.com. "Libraries are proving to be the pioneers of online tutoring as they continue to add services and programs that best utilize their technology to serve their communities in the information age." "Together, Tutor.com and Real Time Learning will expand the reach of innovative online educational programs," said Jonathan Denholtz, CEO of Real Time Learning. "Students at all levels and in all academic subjects will soon be able to walk into any public library or community-based organization around the country, sit down at a computer terminal and immediately be connected live, over the Internet, with a highly trained and highly qualified tutor." Libraries Experience the Power of Online Tutoring Customized Online Tutoring programs and Live Homework Help provide libraries with two ways to leverage the technology they already have - computers and Internet access See how to access the Internet. . The Boston Public Library is in its second year of a three-year RTL program that connects middle school students, via the Internet, with trained tutors from Boston-area universities. Students work with their tutors to prepare for the MCAS McCune-Albright syndrome (MCAS) A genetic syndrome characterized in girls by the development of ovarian cysts and puberty before the age of 8, together with abnormalities of bone structure and skin pigmentation. Mentioned in: Ovarian Cysts , Massachusetts' academic assessment test. 83% of the students who completed program evaluations Program evaluation is a formalized approach to studying and assessing projects, policies and program and determining if they 'work'. Program evaluation is used in government and the private sector and it's taught in numerous universities. reported they were more confident in math and 80% improved their math grades as a result of the online tutoring program. Customized programs are available to libraries and community-based organizations through Tutor.com. Live Homework Help In addition to the RTL programs, Tutor.com also offers a new online subscription service to libraries: Live Homework Help. Students access Live Homework Help from a library's computers and also remotely via libraries' Web sites. After entering their grade level (4th-12th) and the subject (math, science, social sciences or English) in which they need assistance, students are instantly connected to expert tutors in the Tutor.com Online Classroom for free, 20-minute Homework Help sessions. Tutor.com provides Live Homework Help to libraries based on a monthly user license for unlimited access during the program's operating hours. About the Public Library Market There are 9,000 public library systems with 16,000 branches in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. today. Libraries have invested heavily in technology infrastructure, including PCs and dedicated Internet connections. In 2000, 95% of libraries provided public access to the Internet. Libraries' spending on technology services has doubled since 1997 as they seek to leverage their infrastructure investments to deliver technology-based information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. and programs for their communities. Jeanne Hurley Simon, Chairperson, U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) is one of the smallest policy agencies in the U.S. government and for the last 20 years has been fighting for its existence. , confirms the libraries' goal: "Public Libraries have a vital role in assuring that advanced information services See Information Systems. are universally available to all segments of the population on an equitable basis." About Tutor.com Founded in partnership with The Princeton Review, Tutor.com is the leading provider of online tutoring services for education institutions and individual students. Tutor.com provides a 24-hour, one-to-one, online tutoring delivered via its proprietary Online Classroom, utilizing the Web's largest network of tutors, and supported by powerful administrative and reporting tools. The Tutor.com Online Classroom enables learners and tutors to interact in a variety of ways, including speaking to each other live, using whiteboard The electronic equivalent of chalk and blackboard, but between remote users. Whiteboard systems allow network participants to simultaneously view one or more users drawing on an on-screen blackboard or running an application. technology, sharing documents, chatting and browsing the Web together. For more information about Tutor.com, please visit http://www.tutor.com. |
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