Greater Accessibility

Online tuition and learning is known to provide greater flexibility compared with traditional in-person learning methods. Many students/learners have to joggle with many activities during the day and travelling to receive tuition from home is an added burden. With online learning, the extra burden of travel is taken care of and the extra travel time saved can be used for online tuition. Thus, online platforms create greater and better accessibility to education – teaching and learning and ensures tutoring is scheduled around your normal schedule.

Greater flexibility

The use of online platforms creates greater flexibility tuition. The use of the online platforms makes it much easier for learners/students and tutors to change scheduled tuition times or subjects to learn to suit the changing needs. For example, the learners/students can ask to take a lesson earlier or later than originally scheduled to enable them to prepare for an exams or meet a deadline for the submission of an assignment/homework etc.

Computer Aptitude and Skills

Online education creates opportunities for students/learners to develop computer skills that are necessary for completing their education and desirable for finding the most appropriate employment. Additionally, the constant use of computers as part of the online education helps students/learners to develop and improve their research ability, presentation skills and the ability to use a computer are extra useful skills and knowledge that developed in addition to studying the various subjects. In the current technological world, knowing how to use a computer competently can go a long way to help you or your child to succeed with their education and day-to-day life.

Providing Educational Access

People who do not live near schools/colleges/universities that offer courses of their interests or at the educational level that they desire can still pursue these courses because of online educational opportunities. Online courses including professional and degree programmes are available in a large range of subjects in colleges, training/education centres and universities both the undergraduate and graduate level. These opportunities ensure that individuals can pursue online continuing education courses of their choice.

Self-Discipline

Online education may require more self-discipline regime to follow through as tutors and learners could be distract by pop-ups on their computer. Unlike, the physical face-to-face tuition sessions where the learner/student can challenge themselves focus entirely on the tuition, for online tuition, the learners has to be self-disciplined so they do not wander off to other websites. Additionally, learners are more likely to forget the specified time agreed for the tuition and so they need to set reminders to remind themselves of the time agreed for tuition. Thus, learners demonstrate a high level of self-discipline by demonstrating that they can take initiative to attend online lessons and don’t need to wait for others remind them of what to do.

Better Communication and Interaction

Despite the recommendation of online tuition as the best option, face-to-face tuition is known to offer better communication, especially the non-verbal cues that constitute 93% of all communications. Online learning does not always offer the human interaction with learn as face-to-face tuition does. This means that online tutors may miss essential cues that will help them to determine whether the child truly understand a concept taught or not. Through face-to-face tuition, children learn learners/students do not only learn through what is being spoken, but also learn from the body language and the tone of voice used by the tutor to explain concepts.

Better Explanations

Particularly when your child begins learning a new concept (for example, the first time they carry in addition, or the first time they multiply fractions), an online system will not provide the same level of explanation as a face-to-face tutor can. In addition to this, each child will learn slightly differently, so a tutor is able to alter the way they teach a concept or explain the concept in a different way to enable the child fully understands.

Environment

Another key advantage of face-to-face tuition in comparison to online learning is the environment. The face-to-face environment matches closely to the school classroom, which looks familiar to classroom environment which students and pupils experience at school. For many learners, the face-to-face environment enables them to learn and perform well on their academics, because the familiarity of the environment helps them concentrate when in direct contact with a tutor.

Teaching Self-Discipline

Many parents prefer to have the physical presence of a tutor for their child to engage so that the tutor can teach the child to be self-disciplined. There are concern that online tutoring is less probable to teach learners to be self-disciplined. With the face-to-face tutoring, learners can get to know the tutor, help the learner to be focused rather than simply looking at a person on a screen.