Platform aids online shift for tutors
COURSE SQUARE has launched an e-learning platform designed to help academic tutors apply their teaching skills in online channels.
The company aims to reach 15 tutors by the end of this year.
Nuttapon Watcharasirisuk, co-founder of Course Square, said that the firm spent more than one year to develop the platform, named Course Square Mine.
The platform comes with features such as customisation services that allow tutors to design their online courses and theme page by themselves, while offering online marketing and multiple payment services. The Course Square Mine also features an online learning system, customisation, and information technology services. It provides the platform in terms of software-as-a-service, with fees starting at Bt10,000 a month.
Meanwhile, the firm will provide consulting services to support academics. As a result, tutors will have alternative choices and they will able to apply their traditional coursework into an online format within a couple|of weeks.
"I think that the Course Square Mine will able to create fulfilment for traditional academic tutors that want to expand their customer base and offer new services,” said Nuttapon.
The firm now offers the Course Square Mine platform to support 10 academic tutors and expects to reach the 2018 target of 15 by the end of this year.
Moreover, the firm also provides an e-learning marketplace, or e-learning hub, designed for tutors to provide their online coursework in the format of video on demand.
It has more than 400 online courses, such as for mathematics, English and science, on the website, with around 40,000 customers.
The company expects that by the end of this year it will have more than 450 courses on the website.
