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Online tuition has been with us now for a few years however, in my encounter, relatively few individuals have heard of this type of tutoring or, if they have, dismiss it lightly because of some of the poor press that it has received. The function of this post is to right 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 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 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 guidance here can be considered 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 same sort of individual 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 speaking to a person who is not physically present with you then someone clarify the popularity of the phone to me. You talk in real time to a real individual throughout the lesson - the only distinction 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 and so on.
"I wouldn't be in a position to relate to it" There is no difference in online tuition and face-to-face tuition in this respect. If you can't 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 suitable for my child" We've tutored just about each subject and each age group by way of 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 subject that does not lend itself to on-line tuition is 'handwriting' and even that is possible.
"I am not good technically and it would be tough to set up" All you need to do is install MSN or Yahoo Messenger or SKYPE or another 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 considering getting private tutoring, then do not lightly rule out online tuition.
