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Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 21:04:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Berns
You are cordially invited to participate in the creation of what preliminary research suggests may be a new educational concept, Global Tutoring. The project name is International Tutors -- IT. Your comments about IT and the IT Web Site currently under construction are welcome.
IT will offer global non-profit tutoring for pre-school, primary,
secondary, post-secondary, and continuing education students
worldwide. IT was created as an alternative approach to learning
using information technology. More information on IT can be
obtained from our temporary Web Site by using your Web Browser
and the following URL:
IT will be incorporated as a charitable organization for the development and operation of a global tutoring service. ITs mandate will be to use a multimedia interactive Web Site, e-mail, and licensed or qualified international teachers and instructors serving as global tutors to:
1) Supplement the teaching received by the student in his/her mainstream or alternative school.
2) Provide students, their parents and guardians with low-cost access to professional tutors from around the world who are certified teachers or qualified instructors, either teaching or retired.
3) Provide students, whose families pass a needs test, with partial or full bursaries for payment of evaluation and tutoring fees, and with information about area libraries, institutions and schools offering free access to the Internet for IT students.
4) Disseminate information concerning IT and other approaches to teaching which can enhance student learning, motivate the student and engender student interest in learning and, for the primary- or secondary-level IT student, encourage the student to complete his or her high school education.
5) Establish ancillary IT volunteer adult, cross-age and peer tutoring programs, advisory services, and community and school liaison groups.
6) Introduce an applied research program at IT into alternative educational uses of information technology.
My apologies for any cross-posting. Please distribute or post this message to anyone who may be interested in IT. Please direct all inquiries and comments to M. Berns by snail mail or e-mail:
Thank you for your participation in the global tutoring project. IT is scheduled to begin operations on September 1, 1995.
Michael Berns, Ed.D. Candidate History & Philosophy of Education Department Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto 252 Bloor Street West, 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6 Canada ```
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