Methods for providing information and providing student experience in providing information

摘要

Methods for facilitating answering requests for help or information between requesters of that help or information and remote helpers selected to answer those requests. In one method, a help facilitator organization or facilitator organization provides and pays for data communication links into educational institutions, classroom located servers and digital devices coupled to those data communication links, and instructors and supervisors to train and supervise students in the classroom. The facilitator organization may receive help requests over the Internet from retail end user requesters or from groupings of corporate employee requesters. The help requests may be routed through the facilitator organization, with students selected to answer the help requests based at least in part on the availability of the students, and on the subject matter mastery of the students. Once selected, a more direct communication link between the requester and the student can be established. In one method, the retail users or user organizations pay monies to the facilitator organization for the help received, with some of the money being passed on to the students and/or educational institutions. Methods are provided for paying for training, digital device hardware, digital device communication links, and providing training to bridge the skills gap between the classroom and the outside world for the students.