Kelly Kang, a Beijing mother, learned some lessons when she signed up her seven-year-old to online English tuition with a teacher in Canada.
Her daughter did not like the teaching and suffered from the lack of classroom pressure to learn. Ms Kang, meanwhile, found herself pestered by “annoying” salespeople, keen for her to recommend the service. In the end, she stopped the classes after a year.
Over the past decade, online learning has become big business in China, with 200m users and $36.5bn in sales last year, according to the China Internet Network Information Center, a government agency.
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