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Online tuition has been with us now for a couple of years however, in my experience, relatively couple of individuals have heard of this form of tutoring or, if they have, dismiss it lightly simply because of some of the poor press that it has received. The function of this post is to correct 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 on-line 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 by way of our online tuition service. Our tutoring business is now sold and I am retired, consequently I would like to really feel that my advice here can be regarded as impartial.
Here are the six main objections to online tuition and my standard responses.
"I want a human, not a machine" That is precisely what you will get - a human performing the tutoring. You will get the exact 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 talking to a individual who is not physically present with you then somebody explain the popularity of the telephone to me. You talk in real time to a real individual during 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 exact same way that the old radio programmes used to captivate their listeners. There aren't distractions like considering the tutor's attire, their mannerisms etc.
"I wouldn't be able to relate to it" There is no distinction in online tuition and face-to-face tuition in this respect. If you can't relate to what the tutor is saying or doing throughout 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 every topic and every age group via on-line tuition. From twin 4 year olds learning French to adults learning the violin and foreigners doing elocution lessons to remove their accents. The only subject that does not lend itself to on-line tuition is 'handwriting' and even that is feasible.
"I'm not great technically and it would be difficult to set up" All you require to do is install MSN or Yahoo Messenger or SKYPE or another carrier service (all totally 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 having private tutoring, then do not lightly rule out on-line tuition.
