Teachers switching to online tutoring see four times growth in teaching business: Teachmint

Teachers who switched to online tutoring from a conventional physical classroom set-up have witnessed an average of four times growth in their teaching business in eight weeks of signing up, according to edtech start-up Teachmint.

With over 2.5 lakh teachers on its platform and the trend of adding 50,000 new registrations every month, Teachmint said that this practise of tutors on the platform scaling their practice has maintained its course even after the pandemic-induced lockdown started its impact over the last few months.

”Individual teacher growth stories range from a 200 per cent growth to 1,000 per cent growth in student enrolments with some teachers now adding as many as 1,600 students to their classrooms that clearly underscores the value educators can derive by switching over to digital platforms,” Teachmint said in a statement.

Elaborating on the reasons for the growth, the company said that teachers are now easily able to digitise their entire teaching processes including content delivery, student engagement and administrative workflows.

Commenting on the trend, Teachmint co-founder and CEO Mihir Gupta said face-to-face tutor-led teaching is the mainstay of the Indian education sector, making a strong case for digitisation of tutor services as opposed to content-based self-learning models.

As teachers are able to achieve scale, they are now also armed with a powerful set of online tools enabling them to create imaginative and tailored teaching methodologies for their students, thereby providing a more immersive learning experience, Teachmint added.