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Online tuition has been with us now for a couple of years yet, in my experience, relatively few people have heard of this type of tutoring or, if they have, dismiss it lightly because of some of the bad press that it has received. The function of this post is to right a couple of misinterpretations about online tuition and lessons conducted remotely.
My personal encounter is as the former director of a national tuition agency - one of the first to introduce internet or online tuition as we known as it to the UK. I have also been an online tutor myself, supplying intensive day courses in on-line search engine optimisation and website monetization via our online tuition service. Our tutoring business is now sold and I am retired, therefore I would like to really feel that my guidance right here can be considered impartial.
Here are the six main objections to on-line tuition and my standard responses.
"I want a human, not a machine" That is exactly what you will get - a human doing the tutoring. You will get the same sort of person over the internet whom you would have got if you had booked a face-to-face lesson.
"It's a bit ... weird" If that relates to speaking to a individual who is not physically present with you then someone explain the popularity of the telephone to me. You talk in real time to a real individual throughout the lesson - the only difference is that they are not necessarily geographically close to you.
"My child wouldn't concentrate" Our encounter showed the opposite. Students find it much much more focused in the same way that the old radio programmes used to captivate their listeners. There are not distractions like considering the tutor's attire, their mannerisms and so on.
"I wouldn't be in a position to relate to it" There is no distinction in online tuition and face-to-face tuition in this respect. If you cannot relate to what the tutor is saying or doing during the lesson then that is a failing in the tutor, the student or each.
"I can see it would be appropriate for my child" We've tutored just about each subject and each age group via on-line tuition. From twin 4 year olds learning French to adults learning the violin and foreigners doing elocution lessons to eliminate their accents. The only topic that does not lend itself to on-line tuition is 'handwriting' and even that is feasible.
"I am not great technically and it would be tough to set up" All you require to do is set up MSN or Yahoo Messenger or SKYPE or an additional carrier service (all free), push in your USB 'plug and play' microphone or webcam with mike, log in and off you go.
This is component of a series comparing internet and home-visit tuition. If you are considering getting private tutoring, then don't lightly rule out on-line tuition.
