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#34, Felix Ohswald, Founder, GoStudent: What Makes For Effective Tutors
38 minutes Posted Sep 30, 2021 at 7:37 pm.
video tutoring platform operating in 17 countries, Felix Ohswald believes the biggest problem in education is a lack of access to great teachers. Having raised €291M, the platform connects 7000 tutors to 18,000 students. We discuss whether online 121 tutoring is more effective than in-person, whether tutoring can reduce equity gaps rather than exacerbate them and how GoStudent analyzes its data to understand what makes for effective learning.This episode is sponsored by SMART Technologies: https://www.smarttech.com/education/profileShow Notes:More about GoStudent: https://www.gostudent.org/en Favourite ‘book’ about learning: the Richard Feynman Lectures, https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
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As founder of GoStudent, a 1:1 video tutoring platform operating in 17 countries, Felix Ohswald believes the biggest problem in education is a lack of access to great teachers. Having raised €291M, the platform connects 7000 tutors to 18,000 students. We discuss whether online 121 tutoring is more effective than in-person, whether tutoring can reduce equity gaps rather than exacerbate them and how GoStudent analyzes its data to understand what makes for effective learning.This episode is sponsored by SMART Technologies: https://www.smarttech.com/education/profileShow Notes:More about GoStudent: https://www.gostudent.org/en Favourite ‘book’ about learning: the Richard Feynman Lectures, https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/