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[quote=Anonymous]from a Bloomberg article on Sept 6 2017

...In the West, early efforts at online education floundered. The technology wasn’t good enough, and there was significant institutional resistance. Many remain unpersuaded that digital instruction can replace the traditional classroom. In China, however, a combination of factors have given online schools a boost: Finding good teachers can be a challenge, especially in subjects like English and in places beyond the biggest cities, while internet access and mobile services have spread widely. For the nation’s education-obsessed tiger moms and dads, it’s worth the risk to prepare their kids for a high-tech future.
Skeptics believe online education will probably remain a small part of the overall industry. But Curtis Johnson, an author who has championed online teaching, is convinced that global adoption is coming, owing in part to experiments in nations like China. “This is just as inevitable as watching movies or listening to music or reading the news online,” says Johnson, who co-authored the book Disrupting Class with Harvard University's Clayton Christensen in 2009.

Chinese parents currently pay for fewer extra-curricular classes than their Asian neighbors. Last year, about 37 percent of kids in China received tutoring, compared with the 70 percent in places like Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, according to UBS. But the research firm projects that ratio will hit 50 percent in five years, during which time the Chinese government expects the number of kids attending kindergarten through 12th grade to swell to almost 200 million.
Traditional tutoring companies, with brick-and-mortar classrooms, are already cashing in. New Oriental, founded by Peking University professor Minhong “Michael” Yu in 1993, is projected to reach revenue of $2.2 billion in the current fiscal year. TAL Education, which opened its doors about a decade later, now has more than 500 learning centers in about 50 cities and is expected to boost revenue to $1.7 billion this fiscal year.
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