On-line Physics Tuition55003
On-line tuition has been with us now for a few years yet, in my experience, fairly few people have heard of this type of tutoring or, if they have, dismiss it lightly simply because of some of the bad press that it has received. The function of this post is to right a few misinterpretations about on-line tuition and lessons conducted remotely.
My personal experience 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 on-line tutor myself, providing intensive day courses in online 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 feel that my guidance right 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 exactly what you will get - a human doing the tutoring. You will get the exact same sort of individual 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 person who is not physically present with you then somebody clarify the popularity of the phone to me. You talk in real time to a real person throughout the lesson - the only difference is that they are not necessarily geographically close to you.
"My child would not concentrate" Our experience showed the opposite. Students find it a lot 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 would not be in a position to relate to it" There is no distinction in on-line tuition and face-to-face tuition in this respect. If you cannot relate to what the tutor is saying or doing throughout the lesson then that is a failing in the tutor, the student or both.
"I can see it would be appropriate for my child" We've tutored just about each topic and each age group via online tuition. From twin 4 year olds learning French to adults learning the violin and foreigners performing 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'm not great technically and it would be tough 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 part of a series comparing internet and home-go to tuition. If you are contemplating having private tutoring, then don't lightly rule out online tuition.
