Online Tutoring Advantages of the New Approach

Online Tutoring Advantages of the New Approach Today we continue to acquaint our readers with peculiarities of the online education. As it often happens with all innovations there are many obstacles on the way of extension of the online tutoring in spite of all benefits it has in comparison with the traditional ways of tutoring. The main of them is a mistrust from the side of parents. If they can’t see a real tutor how can they be sure that their child will get real knowledge?  However  there are the same demands for the online tutors as for traditional ones: professional competence, individual approach for the student, responsibility and honesty. Tutors of the public online schools must be certified. Besides online tutors must be skillful in modern technologies. Electronic books used in online education are rather unfamiliar for older generation. But the youth of today belongs to the network formation and for them the electronic sources of information are even more natural than the paper books. Modern students willingly welcome all high technologies involved into educational process because the achieved skills will help them in further self-development and future career. In our days information technologies penetrated into all aspects of our life and they are the main tool for the majority of the successful people. There are some categories of people for whom the online tutoring is the only one available education. Some of them suffer from severe  allergies or other medical issues. Others can’t bear school violence and bullying. Some students live in remote areas where face-to-face tutors are not available or they may be interested in a rare subjects such as nuclear engineering or Farsi. Online tutoring provides for a safe opportunity for everybody to get education without meeting with that kind of problems. Sometimes students claim that it is difficult to stay focused in the home environment. But in fact even when we go to traditional schools we learn only part of information during the lessons and the rest of work including studying variable informational sources must be done at home anyway. So it’s only a question of the correct organisation of the learning process. The main advantages of the online tutoring are the following: Time saving: modern technologies enable real-time interaction between tutors and students in any time. All materials are available in electronic format and there is no need to spend time for going to a library or a book store. Mobility: students can study in any place and in any convenient time, even during a trip abroad or late in the evening. Internet connection is the only thing which is needed. The length of each lesson is also individual. Economy and ecology: both tutors and students stay beside their computers, they don’t use the cars and so they save fuel and don’t pollute the environment. Besides they don’t need to buy paper textbooks which saves both money and trees. Many electronic materials are free of cost. Sometimes programs and computer equipment are also provided for free. Internationalization: students get access to a great number of professional tutors living all over the world. The language barrier doesn’t exist anymore. English language is widely spread in all civilized countries and online translation services are available. Tolerance: interaction via Internet neglects ethnic, income, class, sex and all other differences between students and tutors because visual and voice contact is possible but not necessary condition. Safety and comfort: some people feel uneasy in crowded places and prefer to study at home; others can better concentrate in the open air with a plenty of oxygen. Only online tutoring can allow each of them to study in the most convenient surroundings. There is no physical contact so it also eliminates any threat of physical violence. No strangers visit your home and your property and life are absolutely safe. Privacy: tutor and student may not know the real names, appearance and location of each other. In some cases it can be also important. Parent control: online tutoring usually takes place at home so parents have better chances to control the process. Combination of all these favourable factors of course contributes into better mastering of the new information. Besides students can record a tutoring sessions and listen them several time for better understanding and memorizing of the studying material. The list of benefits of the online tutoring is impressive.  However  the fair analysis must include also all disadvantages and dangers of the new educational approach. We will scrutinize the weak sides of the online tutoring in one of our next articles. Online Tutoring Advantages of the New Approach Today we continue to acquaint our readers with peculiarities of the online education. As it often happens with all innovations there are many obstacles on the way of extension of the online tutoring in spite of all benefits it has in comparison with the traditional ways of tutoring. The main of them is a mistrust from the side of parents. If they can’t see a real tutor how can they be sure that their child will get real knowledge?  However  there are the same demands for the online tutors as for traditional ones: professional competence, individual approach for the student, responsibility and honesty. Tutors of the public online schools must be certified. Besides online tutors must be skillful in modern technologies. Electronic books used in online education are rather unfamiliar for older generation. But the youth of today belongs to the network formation and for them the electronic sources of information are even more natural than the paper books. Modern students willingly welcome all high technologies involved into educational process because the achieved skills will help them in further self-development and future career. In our days information technologies penetrated into all aspects of our life and they are the main tool for the majority of the successful people. There are some categories of people for whom the online tutoring is the only one available education. Some of them suffer from severe  allergies or other medical issues. Others can’t bear school violence and bullying. Some students live in remote areas where face-to-face tutors are not available or they may be interested in a rare subjects such as nuclear engineering or Farsi. Online tutoring provides for a safe opportunity for everybody to get education without meeting with that kind of problems. Sometimes students claim that it is difficult to stay focused in the home environment. But in fact even when we go to traditional schools we learn only part of information during the lessons and the rest of work including studying variable informational sources must be done at home anyway. So it’s only a question of the correct organisation of the learning process. The main advantages of the online tutoring are the following: Time saving: modern technologies enable real-time interaction between tutors and students in any time. All materials are available in electronic format and there is no need to spend time for going to a library or a book store. Mobility: students can study in any place and in any convenient time, even during a trip abroad or late in the evening. Internet connection is the only thing which is needed. The length of each lesson is also individual. Economy and ecology: both tutors and students stay beside their computers, they don’t use the cars and so they save fuel and don’t pollute the environment. Besides they don’t need to buy paper textbooks which saves both money and trees. Many electronic materials are free of cost. Sometimes programs and computer equipment are also provided for free. Internationalization: students get access to a great number of professional tutors living all over the world. The language barrier doesn’t exist anymore. English language is widely spread in all civilized countries and online translation services are available. Tolerance: interaction via Internet neglects ethnic, income, class, sex and all other differences between students and tutors because visual and voice contact is possible but not necessary condition. Safety and comfort: some people feel uneasy in crowded places and prefer to study at home; others can better concentrate in the open air with a plenty of oxygen. Only online tutoring can allow each of them to study in the most convenient surroundings. There is no physical contact so it also eliminates any threat of physical violence. No strangers visit your home and your property and life are absolutely safe. Privacy: tutor and student may not know the real names, appearance and location of each other. In some cases it can be also important. Parent control: online tutoring usually takes place at home so parents have better chances to control the process. Combination of all these favourable factors of course contributes into better mastering of the new information. Besides students can record a tutoring sessions and listen them several time for better understanding and memorizing of the studying material. The list of benefits of the online tutoring is impressive.  However  the fair analysis must include also all disadvantages and dangers of the new educational approach. We will scrutinize the weak sides of the online tutoring in one of our next articles.