Home Education and Open Source Software
Home education is all the rage and for good reasons.
Home education is all very well, especially if the parent is a polymath, but this is not usually the case. More often input from subject-specialists is required. Even the best online 'teach yourself spanish' is a big ask for the home learner. Independent learning is something that is mastered by few and in any case takes a long time to acquire the skills to do so.
Visiting specialised tuition is a well developed market but involves a lot of travel and is very cost ineffective for short durations and long distances. This limits drastically any growth in this area.
However this may all be about to change. Below is a case study for a project that I recently setup for a friend carrying out private tuition in France.
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