Online tutoring and wind energy have something in common. Both of them have attracted the attention of the private sector, but not of the states and international institutions across the globe.
Not on the Radar of International Institutions
There are several nations as well as international institutions such as, UNESCO or UNICEF, which are making extraordinary effort to reach out the uneducated class of people across the globe. But none of these institutions has given any serious consideration to forge partnership with the private sector, to exploit the full potential of online tutoring to achieve its goal.
Reach Out the Unreachable
Online tutoring can be used as a very effective method to provide education to the people residing in such places, where it is difficult to run conventional educational institutions. The governments of different countries may look at it as something much more than an alternate to the conventional coaching institutes, where parents send their children to learn what they could not in their schools or colleges. As a matter of fact, the internet technology, which has become quite affordable these days, has made online tutoring such a potent tool which can change the lives of billions of people across the globe.
Viable Alternate to Conventional Education
One of the Millennium Development Goals of UNICEF is to provide primary education to all the children across the globe by 2015. Similarly, UNESCO aims to provide education to all children, youth and adults by 2015, under its Education for All movement. However, will these institutions be able to reach every corner of the world and establish the conventional educational institutions, and successfully run and administer them perpetually? It appears to be very difficult, if not impossible. It is here that the concept of online tutoring can play a crucial role. Global institutions can be established with the help of public-private partnership, to exploit the full potential of online tutoring to spread the quality education in every corner of the world.
The need of public-private partnership to launch online tutoring as an innovative means of providing education is not only to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of UNICEF or to successfully implement Education for All movement of UNESCO. The online tutoring can be thought of a viable alternate to the conventional educational system. However, it may not be possible for different states in isolation across the globe to implement online tutoring at such large scale. Private sector has to play its own role, and that gives rise to the scope of public-private partnership to exploit the full potential of the concept of online tutoring.
Incomparable Quality
Let us look at online tutoring from a little different perspective. Do we need to think of online tutoring even where the conventional infrastructure for the education exists? The answer is yes. The quality of education that can be imparted with the help of online tutoring is incomparable. You can not place renowned scholars in every educational institution that exists on this globe. But with the help of online tutoring, the whole world can learn a subject from them, who are the best in their field. Let us hope that online tutoring catches the eyes of the policy-makers of the nations and the international institutions across the globe.
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