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Online tuition has been with us now for a few years however, in my encounter, 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 article is to correct a couple of 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 online tuition as we called it to the UK. I have also been an on-line tutor myself, providing 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, consequently I would like to feel that my guidance right here can be regarded as impartial.
Here are the six primary objections to on-line tuition and my standard responses.
"I want a human, not a machine" That's 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 speaking to a individual who is not physically present with you then somebody explain the recognition of the phone to me. You talk in real time to a real person during the lesson - the only difference is that they are not necessarily geographically close to you.
"My child wouldn't concentrate" Our experience showed the opposite. Students find it much more focused in the same way that the old radio programmes used to captivate their listeners. There aren't distractions like contemplating the tutor's attire, their mannerisms etc.
"I wouldn't be able 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 performing throughout the lesson then that is a failing in the tutor, the student or both.
"I can see it would be suitable for my child" We've tutored just about each subject and each age group via online 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 online tuition is 'handwriting' and even that is feasible.
"I'm not great technically and it would be difficult to set up" All you need to do is install 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-go to tuition. If you are contemplating getting private tutoring, then don't lightly rule out online tuition.
