The Advantages & Disadvantages Of On-line Tutoring.

THE ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES OF On-Line TUTORING. *************************************************** Simply learning tution is a advance source of private tutors & students worldwide. Over the last three years, Universities & authentic Institutions of U.K,Canada,Australia and United States, have received an increasing number of requests for "On-Line private tutoring". Therefore a commissioned research was organized by Oxford and Cambridge Universities. to measure the effectiveness of On-Line tutoring and to identify the main strength & weaknesses of On-Line as a tuition platform. The following DATA come from a SURVEY of 300 tutors approximately.

IT SPECIFICATIONS ****************** The preferred platform is Skype - with shared screen and whiteboard. It is free, convenient and user friendly for both students and tutor.

THE SUMMERY OF On-Line TUTORING ADVANTAGES. ****************************************** * Online tutoring can be provided at a lower cost than face-to-face tuition. * Students are increasingly using online learning within schools and university, becoming familiar with this style of learning. * Tuition is provided by the same highly qualified and vetted tutors as regular one-to-one tuition but there are no geographic limitations and tutors do not spend valuable time travelling to their client. * Several tutors travel widely in their academic careers, this causes gaps in regular face-to-face tuitions, which online sessions can overcome. This allows strong relationships to be maintained between student and tutor. POTENTIAL LIMITATIONS IN On-Line TUTORING. ****************************************** * Students must have a strong internet connection and be able to download Skype. * Students require some IT knowledge, this means it is not always suitable for younger children. * If the student needs significant motivation, or is disorganized and often fails to turn up for tutorials, the tutor is unable to 'bring them to the table'. Parents will need to check that their children are online when they should be! * Graphical explanations can be difficult - it is much more time consuming to create a graph in e.g. Excel than to sketch one on paper.

RESULT OF SURVEY HELPED TO CREAT A BEST PRACTICAL MODEL OF On-Line TUTION. ************************************************************************** * Tutors should ask students to email partially completed work or question sheets in advance. * The tutor will in turn email a copy of their notes to the tutee in advance. * If possible, tutors will focus on questions that can be answered orally. * All tutors will use webcams so that the student can see who they are talking to. This remains optional for the student. *************************************************************************