Online Education and Tutoring: Can't make it to the tutor... have the tutor come to you
News flash... everyone is heavily scheduled these days. Up early, school or work all day, sports or dance or lessons after school, homework and meetings at night... Am I telling you anything you don't already know?
So how do you manage to find time for everything?
One solution is to have the service come to you.
mAke the grAde, a Dresher based tutoring service and academic support specialists for Math, Sciences and Test Prep (SAT,ACT, PSAT) has expanded its tutoring offerings and now offers ONLINE based tutoring via a high tech multimedia online based classroom. This classroom is state of the art, fully interactive and most of all a highly effective system for tutoring.
Any subject for students of any grade or ability level can be effective addressed using this platform.
Better yet, rather then traditional tutoring which is typically done in hour long blocks of time at regular times weekly, online based work has much greater flexibility and can be done in blocks of 10 minutes and often at the last minute to help with emergencies.
Further, this service is available via the internet so whether you are local, or a student at a university hours away, the support and service are available easily right at your desk on your computer.
Convenient, efficient and effective. And no carpooling or 'moms taxi service'. :)
Check out www.tutorfi.com/demo for a sampling...
Questions and information are most easily answered by calling mAke the grAde at 215 540 TEST (8378) or by checking out www.tutoryourfamily.com
Dr Steven Greene
7:27 am on Friday, April 6, 2012
Thanks everyone for reading this blog. As we use the online forum more and more I am realizing the greater potential of this medium for tutoring and education in general (business education as well etc).
check out www.tutoryourfamily.com for more information. Thank you for your support.
PS - ask about our referral program...
Dr Steven Greene
6:01 am on Friday, June 8, 2012
@Ronnie - I agree that the method of teaching should be customized to the needs of the student. I agree that the community, or social aspect of education is quite important.
To clarify... mAke the grAde is 'brick and mortar' (and we see 40-60 students / week face to face typically in 30 to 90 minute blocks of time) and the online service is an adjunct to the 'live' service which is designed to provide broader access to the service and to the tutors here. We help people locally, and in 14 states and 3 countries at this point mostly with Math, Science and Test Prep topics. In most cases these students are taking a class in their local area and have questions about the topic or have some struggle to master the material.
At MTG, we offer online tutoring not as a full class or for credit course, but as tutoring, or academic support for courses that the students may already be taking.
To some degree tutoring, or taking classes, online is a matter of access and convenience. as well.
Shoseph
2:34 am on Tuesday, April 30, 2013
I would have to say that I think a combination of online education and being a part of a classroom community is the best for a student. Having taken both types of classes, I have experienced the benefits of both. When it comes to adolescents, I think that it is best for them to be in a classroom community, where they can receive human interactions with both their peers and the teachers. I think creating an online community that corresponds with our classroom community can really enhance learning. Whether this online community is a blog or a tutoring site is up to the teacher. I personally would try to implement an online community, for the advantages that it has for learning, but also because it will engage students, just because it is online.
www.theonlineschools.org
Dr Steven Greene
8:04 am on Tuesday, April 30, 2013
At this stage.. the internet is so accessible that 'online education' is a reality for most everyone. This can take many forms.. but clearly, the overall goal is to support the educational process and help students learn and become better learners.