FEV Tutor + Edmentum: Extending Online Learning with Personalized Live Tutoring

This post is guest written by Ryan Patenaude, senior vice president and cofounder at FEV Tutor, a leading provider and innovator in one-to-one online tutoring. Edmentum and FEV Tutor have recently announced a partnership to make live, 24/7, on-demand tutoring services available to students working in Courseware and EdOptions Academy virtual courses.

On the FEV Tutor team, we believe that every learner deserves a high-quality, highly individualized education. We also believe it takes a team effort to make that kind of rigorous, impactful education a reality. That’s why FEV Tutor is so excited to be partnering with Edmentum to make our online tutoring services available to students using EdOptions Academy and Courseware.

This partnership was born out of aligned missions and shared lofty goals. Edmentum and FEV Tutor both aim to positively impact as many K–12-plus students and educators as possible by supporting more varied, more flexible, and more personalized learning environments. By combining Edmentum’s industry-leading Courseware digital curriculum and outstanding team of EdOptions Academy virtual teachers with FEV Tutor’s 24/7, live, one-to-one online tutoring support, we can accelerate learning outcomes and empower more students to believe in their own potential.

To help you understand more about why Edmentum has chosen to partner with us at FEV Tutor, I’d like to share three benefits of the partnership that we’re most excited about.

1. Quality comes first

Outstanding education begins with outstanding educators, empowered with the resources they need. We fully support Edmentum’s #EducatorFirst philosophy and recognize the rigor and student engagement built into the digital curriculum. FEV Tutor has been nothing short of impressed with the dedication and expertise of the EdOptions Academy team of virtual teachers. At FEV Tutor, we share this same commitment to quality. Our team of online tutors all hold at minimum a four-year bachelor’s degree with at least two years of classroom teaching or tutoring experience, and tutors have passed extensive background checks. The 24/7, one-to-one support our tutors can provide—smoothly integrated within the Edmentum platform—serves as a natural and flexible extension of the personalized, scaffolded instruction that students already receive from their teacher-of-record and the digital curriculum itself.   

2. Greater access to learning = improved education equity

Education is one of the foundational keys to helping individuals reach their potential; meet their goals; and lead healthy, fulfilling lives. But, the unfortunate reality is that too many children (and adult learners) don’t have access to high-quality education—and access is the first step toward equity. FEV Tutor and Edmentum share a drive to increase this access with innovative, research-based online approaches designed to support all students, regardless of income, demographics, or previous learning struggles. Courseware and EdOptions Academy help districts and schools provide students with access to courses they may not have otherwise had the resources to offer—including electives, career and technical education, world languages, and advanced subjects—and power flexible online learning environments that can reach students who have not experienced success in the traditional classroom. FEV Tutor takes this access to education one step further. Our on-demand, live, one-to-one tutoring sessions available to Edmentum users can fill in gaps when students lack at-home learning support; when districts can only provide limited, on-site instructor support for independent study or credit recovery students; or when students need additional targeted skill building in preparation for assessments or college.

3. Holistic support for online learners

The variety and flexibility of blended and fully virtual learning options that Courseware and EdOptions Academy open up can be game changing for students. These options empower students to take greater ownership over their own learning. However, to achieve success, students also need to be equipped with the right supports, especially when working on their own schedules and at their own paces. Edmentum and FEV Tutor both understand that online learning is just as much (or more) of a team effort as education in the traditional classroom setting. In addition to providing tutoring support for students in real-time as questions come up, the FEV Tutor team works alongside Edmentum to serve as an important link in the chain of communication that needs to be ongoing between students; their teachers-of-record (whether in school or through EdOptions Academy); other educators and administrators at their school; and last, but certainly not least, their families or caregivers. The FEV Tutor Student & Family Engagement Team is even available to work directly with family members to make sure that they know how to make the most effective use of live, one-to-one tutoring for students working in Courseware and EdOptions Academy virtual courses.

One of the most significant challenges in education is the finite amount of time available for students and educators to work together. On the FEV Tutor team, we believe that, by partnering to combine Edmentum’s best-in-class online learning solutions with our 24/7, live, on-demand one-to-one virtual tutoring support, we can make more of that critical time available and extend high-quality personalized instruction for students in all kinds of learning environments. With this partnership, we truly believe that we can address challenges of time and capacity faced by educators and make a difference in the lives of many more students.

Watch this short video to get an idea of what FEV Tutor’s customized, one-to-one, online tutoring looks like in action and see how it can benefit students and educators utilizing Courseware and EdOptions Academy:

Want to find out more about how live, one-to-one online tutoring from FEV Tutor can help accelerate student outcomes in blended and fully virtual learning environments? Get the details on the full scope of our partnership for Courseware and EdOptions Academy!