The Choice Channel

“In the basement of his parents’ home in Wellesley, Aashish Sharma is brushing up on high school chemistry, with help from George Mathew, a tutor with a master’s degree in the subject. Mathew works for a US firm, but does his tutoring while seated at a computer in the southern Indian city of Cochin. Thanks to a high-speed Internet link, and software that lets him sketch chemical formulas onto a computer screen, Mathew can give 16-year-old Aashish one-on-one tutoring from 8,000 miles and half a day away. ‘I was skeptical at first,’ said Aashish’s mother, Sandhya, a developmental educator. ‘’But I decided to give it a shot, and it works beautifully.’” (03/28/06)