Online Tutoring on the rise during Covid19Copied from article online: Kevin Wu has got an offer for parents wanting to know what to do with their teens over the extended March break with most things shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. How about a free hour of one-on-one online tutoring for high school students? Were actually giving away 100,000 hours of free tutoring sessions to students, said Wu, a Toronto educational consultant who has owned oneclass.com for almost a decade. After the free session (one per student), Wus tutors charge $80 per hourly interactive session, with more discounts for bulk sessions of eight ($600) and 12 hours ($880). The tutors have a minimum of a bachelors degree and two years teaching experience (the company is looking for more certified educators and also offers post-secondary tutoring) I think before (COVID-19), usually we would have a few students per day coming to us through the various channels, said Wu. Since everything started, definitely in the first few weeks, weve seen it double in terms of the volume. We caught up with Wu from his Toronto office. Is the increase in demand for your services due to COVID-19 unprecedented? Having been in the education industry for quite some time, I think this is probably the first time in 10 years weve seen such a rapid shift towards online learning. What if March Break extends beyond April 5 and teachers consider going online with students. How long does something like that take to set up? For them to pull together all their curriculum and all their lesson plans online could probably take at least a week or two, just to get that going. Then they have to get used to using a tablet for writing and then setting up their webcam and all these different production things have to align.