tutor.com Partners With Houghton Mifflin; Students Receive Online Tutoring on Houghton Mifflin Site

Business Wire, August 28, 2000

Business/Internet Editors

NEW YORK & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2000

Just in time for "back-to-school", tutor.com (www.tutor.com), the premiere enabler of online learning communities, announces a partnership with Houghton Mifflin Company's College Division, a leading publisher of college instructional materials, to create a tutor network on the Houghton Mifflin Accounting site (college.hmco.com/accounting).

The co-branding agreement will also provide students who purchase select Houghton Mifflin Accounting textbooks access to free tutoring from an accredited accounting tutor on the Houghton Mifflin site.

"Houghton Mifflin has a long tradition of providing the highest quality educational materials for students. By making our tutors available through the Houghton Mifflin site, and marketing our online tutoring services through company's textbooks, we can offer our immediate online instruction to students when they need it most - while they are studying or doing their homework," says George Cigale, CEO of tutor.com.

The agreement with Houghton Mifflin is designed to make tutor.com's database of certified accounting tutors available to Houghton Mifflin's customers through the seamless Houghton Mifflin Tutor Network, powered by tutor.com. Within this co-branded environment, Houghton Mifflin users can find a tutor and engage in an online tutoring session. Starting this fall, free tutoring will be available to users of Houghton Mifflin's select Accounting textbooks every day from 8:00pm to 11:00pm EST. The Houghton Mifflin online classroom powered by tutor.com will incorporate Houghton Mifflin content.

"The alliance with tutor.com is an excellent opportunity for us to enhance and support our textbook offerings with interactive learning tools that are aligned with our course materials. By utilizing tutor.com's online classroom, we can help deliver important resources to increase student achievement," said Charles Hartford, Vice President and Publisher for Accounting, Houghton Mifflin College Division.

About tutor.com

Founded in 1999, tutor.com matches learners anytime, anywhere with educators for on- and off-line learning on a comprehensive list of subjects. The first distance learning company to offer instant real-time online connections between tutors and learners through its online classroom, tutor.com allows learners to easily search an extensive database of more than 20,000 registered tutors in approximately 400 subjects, both academic and non-academic. tutor.com also offers tutors the opportunity to teach from any setting, on any subject, at any time. Students select tutors by multiple criteria including subject and hourly fee as well as teaching philosophies, academic and teaching qualifications and reviews from previous students.

tutor.com offers partnering companies the ability to provide customized online tutoring services to their users through the tutor.com online classroom tutoring application. Partners can customize their offerings by selecting the subjects or locations to be offered to their online community, as well as setting the criteria for acceptable tutors. tutor.com provides support through daily contact with tutors, guaranteeing a higher quality of instructor. In addition, the partner sites are included on tutor.com's Resource Pages and Partner Pages, driving traffic to the partner site.

About Houghton Mifflin

Houghton Mifflin is a leading publisher of textbooks, instructional technology, assessments, and other educational materials for elementary and secondary schools and colleges. The Company also publishes an extensive line of reference works and fiction and non-fiction for adults and young readers. The Company's Internet site can be found at www.hmco.com.

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