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On-line tuition has been with us now for a couple of years yet, in my encounter, relatively couple of people 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 right a few misinterpretations about online 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 online tutor myself, supplying intensive day courses in online search engine optimisation and website monetization by way of our on-line 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 on-line tuition and my standard responses.
"I want a human, not a machine" That's precisely what you will get - a human doing 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 is a bit ... weird" If that relates to talking to a person 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 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 are not 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 performing 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 online tuition. From twin 4 year olds learning French to adults learning the violin and foreigners performing elocution lessons to remove 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 set up 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 getting private tutoring, then do not lightly rule out online tuition.
