Business & Tech
Local Tutoring Service Partners with Course Hero
Cardinal Scholars to fuse with online learning platform.
Online learning platform Course Hero announced yesterday its purchase of the locally-based tutoring service Cardinal Scholars, with plans to create a blended learning model combining live tutoring with online resources.
With this new model, clients of Cardinal Scholars will be able to use tools such as online courses, flashcards, and videos from the Course Hero website, in addition to the services of an offline tutor, at no additional cost. According to Course Hero CEO Andrew Grauer, tutors can use these resources to both measure student performance and make lessons more engaging.
“What we hope to do is to take things like our online flashcards and our online courses and give that technology to the tutors so that they can [for example] assign some sort of lesson plan to the student not only when they’re in a session but when they go home,” Grauer said. “They’re really engaging sets of technology that are much more fun than just a traditional index flashcards or a worksheet that you take home.”
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As of now Cardinal Scholars’ services continues to run as usual; meanwhile the online resources will be incorporated over the next 6 to 12 months.
“We’re looking forward to leveraging Course Hero’s resources to expand the Cardinal Scholars presence to new locations and make Cardinal Scholars an even greater learning service for students,” Grauer said in a statement.
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Founders Alison and Dan Johnston decided to pass Cardinal Scholars to Course Hero with hopes of getting it more attention in the home market.
“I think you’ll see that trend happening more and more where you can use Internet technology to make local commerce more effective,” Grauer said.
Founded in 2011, Cardinal Scholars aims to connect K-12 students to college tutors, and currently serves hundred of students in the San Francisco Bay, New York, and Boston areas, with plans to expand to other cities in the future. It’s parent company, InstaEDU, provides on-demand tutoring through video chat. Course Hero was founded in 2006 and is based in Redwood City.
