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Teaching the world, online from India

Serial entrepreneur Krishnan Ganesh believes there are two things that starting up a successful business requires, passion for an idea and stupidity.

"You need to have the stupidity to believe that that idea will work because, right off the block, you're starting with a 5% probability of success," he says.

This confidence has characterised his latest venture. The engineering graduate confesses he started up his fourth business, TutorVista - an online tutoring service based in India - although he had no experience of the education sector.

Despite this, the company has seen strong growth since it launched in 2006.

"Our youngest is a six-year-old student from the US and the oldest is a 64-year-old man from Korea who comes to learn English," says Mr Ganesh.

He adds that TutorVista now provides remote tutoring via the web to as many as 2,000 college and school students in the US alone.

The media and education giant Pearson acquired a controlling stake in the business in early 2011.

Mr Ganesh was shocked by "the amount of media debate over the crisis in the US school education system". His curiosity was piqued and he decided to research the question further.

"When I went deeper, I found that while the public school system is good, the teachers are good… [but] personalised education… is simply unaffordable. It costs anything between $40 to $60 per hour."

The entrepreneur was inspired to try to create something more cost-effective.

He came up with the idea of using the internet to connect students in countries like the US or Britain, with teachers from countries like India, where wages are lower.

The aim was to create a low-cost service "which becomes part of the monthly budget of a US family".

Krishnan Ganesh says his enterprise has been enabled by recent technological developments, such as better internet connectivity and the widespread growth of personal computers.

"That really was one important element… I couldn't have done this 10 years back."

Mr Ganesh believes that using the internet as the backbone of your business offers lots of different ways to cut costs and streamline processes.

Lower labour costs are not the only factor in helping to keep the price of the service down.

Mr Ganesh says that another important element lies in mostly employing teachers who work from home - something only now possible because of good internet connections: "The remote model helps us a lot in keeping the capital expenditure and running expenditure down.

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Teaching the world, online from India

"The entire recruitment is done online completely; right from the interview to selection, to training, to certification," says Krishnan Ganesh. "We believe if we can teach students thousands of miles away, we can definitely train our teachers in India.

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With some areas of the country experiencing teacher shortages, emergency certification has been one way to get someone into the classroom. This certification doesn’t last long and is given in hopes that the person plans to work towards an actual teacher certification. But teaching takes up a lot of time. When you are holding classes for kids you don’t have a lot of time to attend a class for yourself. Today professionals can receive their certification online.

If there are several teachers all emergency certified in the same school or even school district, they may want to work towards their certification together taking online classes. Fit in the reading, assignments and tests outside of the work week and it is possible to take classes while maintaining a full time job. Depending on your experience and level of expertise, you may be able to take a few classes at a time to get your certification quickly.

Read through the class instructions as soon as it starts to find out what is going to be expected of you. Check to see if you are going to need to write out lesson plans that show a certain skill or even plan a class project with a set of students. You may be able to work this into your current teaching curriculum and be able to write about it for your own class.

No matter where you take classes towards a teaching certification you will need to participate in some type of practicum. If you are already in a classroom under and emergency certification you can use these hours spend for those assignments. You may also be able to waive the student teaching portion of the certification process if you can send in documentation.