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On-line tuition has been with us now for a few years yet, in my experience, fairly couple of individuals 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 correct a few 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 online tuition as we called it to the UK. I have also been an on-line tutor myself, supplying intensive day courses in online search engine optimisation and website monetization by way of our online tuition service. Our tutoring business is now sold and I am retired, therefore I would like to really feel that my guidance here can be considered impartial.
Right here are the six main objections to on-line 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 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 individual who is not physically present with you then somebody clarify the recognition of the telephone 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 encounter showed the opposite. Students find it a lot more focused in the same way that the old radio programmes used to captivate their listeners. There are not 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 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 both.
"I can see it would be appropriate for my child" We've tutored just about each topic and each age group by way of online 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 possible.
"I'm not good technically and it would be tough to set up" All you need to do is set up MSN or Yahoo Messenger or SKYPE or an additional 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-visit tuition. If you are contemplating getting private tutoring, then don't lightly rule out on-line tuition.
