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Online tuition has been with us now for a couple of years yet, in my experience, relatively few people have heard of this form of tutoring or, if they have, dismiss it lightly because of some of the bad press that it has received. The function of this article is to correct 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 online tuition as we known as it to the UK. I have also been an online tutor myself, providing intensive day courses in on-line search engine optimisation and website monetization via our on-line tuition service. Our tutoring business is now sold and I am retired, therefore I would like to really 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 same sort of person 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 person who is not physically present with you then someone explain the recognition of the phone 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 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 would not 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 during 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 every subject and every age group by way of on-line tuition. From twin 4 year olds learning French to adults learning the violin and foreigners performing elocution lessons to remove their accents. The only subject that does not lend itself to online tuition is 'handwriting' and even that is possible.
"I am not great technically and it would be tough 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-visit tuition. If you are considering having private tutoring, then do not lightly rule out online tuition.
