All it will take is a high speed home internet connection, something called a whiteboard and English spoken with an accent for a Jayanthi/ Viswanathan/ Salma from Kottayarn/ Coimbatore/Tirunelveli to teach a Janet/Jack/Bret from Illinois/Auckland/Kinshasa all about Cartesian co-ordinates and pre-calculus.Welcome to the world of Education Process Outsourcing (simply put, online tutoring), the latest to take the IT enabled Services industry by storm,Fuelled by the shortfall in quality mathematics, English and science home tutors in the United States, Canada, the Middle East, North Africa, Australia and New Zealand and the abundant number available in India, a slew of enterprising educational content developers now offer the next best thing to real-time learning e-tutoring. At least two New Delhi-based companies, Educomp Datamatics and Career Launcher, both with offices in Chennai, claim to have logged on to this exploding market profitably. The phenomenon is new even in the U.S. Unlike BPOs, the EPO industry is geographically widespread, as tutors can operate from home. A software version, called the whiteboard, is used on which multimedia flies can be posted. Real-time communication is facilitated through a digitiser. Voice and text interactions are enabled, says Anirudh Phadke, who heads the e-Iearning branch of Career Launcher.At present, the tutoring business in the U.S. is worth $8 billion, of which on-line tutoring works out to $2.7 billion. Our tutors are better trained, and we offer a cost advantage, vis-a-vis, American tutors. After a selection test and a month of training in U.S. curriculum and American English, a tutor can earn anywhere between Rs. 200-Rs. 300 an Jiour, just working out of home, says Shantanu Prakash, CEO, Educomp Datamatics.With the broadband expansion set to take off in India, the firms are looking to tap the Indian market too, especially in areas where good tutors are hard to find.