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Rapidly Changing Wave of Offline to Online Tutoring

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:55:11 +0000

For many years, students had to rely on face to face individual or group tutoring in order to receive academic assistance outside of the classroom. But tutoring has transformed as technological advancements, namely, the Internet has come up. Few years back, the only option was to invite a stranger in the home – or meet outside of the home to receive assistance, now it can be done online. Though, if you?re accustomed to this form of tutoring, you may be little hesitating about making the switch. If this is the case, here are a few advantages to making the transition from offline to online tutoring.

Still Working with Live People
One reason for not hesitating with online tutoring is the fact that you are no longer getting the face to face, live interaction. It?s true that you don?t have access to body language and facial expressions, you do have access to a live person in various instances. There are various great resources available that ensure to have a qualified tutor ready to chat with students so that they feel that same sense of companionship and camaraderie that they are used to while working with a person in the same room.

Added Convenience

The main reason that let students jump at that chance to work with an online tutor versus taking a private tutor is the convenience that online tutoring can provide. With online tutoring, you don?t need to fix any schedule according to them; you can fix your own schedule for tutoring as per your needs. You can sit any where you want such as house, favorite caf

Why Online Tutoring Than Offline Tutoring?

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:06:00 +0000

In school, students study in groups and the teachers are unable to concentrate on each and every student.

Due to lack of attention most of the students take help of tuition to perform well in the exams. Parents believe that one to one tutoring is far more effective than group tuition. This is the reason where the search for home tutor begins.

Even after locating a tutor the most difficult task for a student is to commute to the tutor?s place, in bad weather or in traffic jams this become headache for the parents as well as become impossible when the student need help for his next day?s exam and the tutor is not available. Every parent wants to avoid this kind of circumstances. Online tutoring is a new concept in India though it has already boomed industry in countries like UK, USA, and in AUSTRALIA.

Most of the parents think that the most important thing is the quality of tutors. It doesn?t matter if they have to pay more for it. But when their kids study online they can cut their cost, they don?t have to worry about the tutor for that they just have to login to the internet. Also non-punctuality of tutor, difficulty in understanding the concept in groups, tutors non availability are some of the reasons which parents as well as the students want to avoid.

This all can be avoided in online tutoring. In online tutoring the tutor teaches student one to one through internet using virtual classroom. It consists of special whiteboard which is shared by the student as well as the teacher and they can interact live with each other using text or audio chat. The special features of online tutoring are affordability and convenience.

It qualifies the belief of one to one tutoring direct from home. Special focus remains on concept building. One can study direct from his home, no more tutor search, 24×7availability are some features of online tutoring which makes it first choice of students. To see how it works one must go for at least free trial what I believe they could not be able to deny it.

Saroj Bala

Making the Transition From Offline to Online Tutoring

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:41:08 +0000

For many years, students had to rely on face-to-face individual or group tutoring in order to receive academic assistance outside of the classroom. But tutoring has changed as technological advancements – namely, the Internet – have come about.

Where once before, the only option was to invite a stranger in the home – or meet outside of the home – to receive assistance, now it can be done online. However, if you’re accustomed to this form of tutoring, you may be a bit hesitant about making the switch. If this is the case, here are a few benefits to making the transition from offline to online tutoring.

Still Working with Live People

One cause for hesitation with online tutoring is the fact that you no longer get the face-to-face, live interaction. While it’s very true that you don’t have access to body language and facial expressions, you do have access to a live person in many instances. There are a number of great resources available that make sure to have a qualified tutor ready to chat with students so that they feel that same sense of companionship and camaraderie that they’re used to when working with a person in the same room.

Added Convenience

One reason that many students jump at the chance to work with an online tutor versus taking on the face-to-face tutoring session is the convenience that online tutoring can provide. Think about it; in the past, you had to coordinate schedules with a tutor, find a place to meet, make sure you had all of your materials, and actually arrive on time. However, with an online tutor, so much of this hassle is reduced or eliminated entirely.

For instance, whereas you had to coordinate schedules offline, in an online environment, you normally will be assigned a time by the tutor to meet that you agree upon without much hassle. This of course is coupled with the fact that meeting times are not as difficult to schedule when you can physically meet anywhere as long as a computer is in tow. You can sit in your house, visit your favorite caf