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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Startup of the year 2014: Learnerlane

Learnerlane
Learnerlane has signed up more than 200 tutors. Photograph: PR

Name: Learnerlane
Based: Romford
Website: www.learnerlane.com

Learnerlane is an online platform that connects students, aged eight to 18, with great academic tutors. We take the ‘private’ out of in-person tutoring by using a smart feedback system to enable seamless communication between tutors and parents while motivating students to succeed.

After each lesson our tutors use the feedback system to comment on and rate key components of the lesson, such as overall effort and lesson performance. This can be completed in minutes and sent to parents in one click.

With the lesson data collected, we can spot trends in learning capabilities. This gives us the ability to indicate whether a student may have a special educational need (SEN) or could be the next Einstein and require accelerated learning.

Learnerlane has been accepted into the Dotforge Accelerator programme and recently raised private investment.

With more than 200 tutors testing the beta product pre-launch we are excited to show the wider public how we’re revolutionising the private tutoring industry.

Richard Oki is the chief executive of Learnerlane

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