Teach, Tutor Or Coach Online - What You Need To Get Started

Teaching Online Have you ever considered teaching or learning a new skill online? This is something we believe anyone can now do.
Teachers, tutors or coaches can increase their income by working from home and students can instantly find tutors in any subject anywhere in the world.

The rapid growth of technology & the internet has now made this a real possibility.

Virtually every country in the world now has high speed internet access. According to internetworldstats.com there are currently around 2 billion internet users worldwide and this number is increasing all the time. Many of us use instant messaging tools and webcams to communicate with friends and family already and these are free and very easy to use. These same tools could be used to teach online. Who can teach? The word 'teach' means to impart knowledge, we all know something that many others do not.
This could be how to make the perfect cake or how to take great photographs, iron a shirt or how to upgrade your computer's hard drive, local knowledge for visiting tourists or how to play the didgeridoo.
Then there is the academic stuff like advanced mathematics, linguistics & science. You get the idea.
Whether you are a trained professional teacher or just someone who knows something useful or interesting, everyone can teach.
Who would want to learn online? The benefits to the students are endless; these are some of the most obvious.
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Access to teachers in a vast number of subjects without having to leave home. Access to teachers in other countries and cultures.

Students with disabilities or agoraphobia may feel more comfortable learning from home.
More focused lessons, you are one to one with the teacher, ask the questions relevant to you.

Parents struggling with their children's homework; find an expert online to help. What equipment would I need? All you need to teach or learn online is a computer with broadband internet access, a microphone and headphones (or headset), and a webcam if the lesson requires visual aspects.
The only other requirement is to download and install one or more of the free instant messaging tools, such as Skype, MSN Live Messenger, OoVoo, Yahoo Messenger etc.

None of the computer hardware needs to be brand new or state of the art.

A three year old computer should suffice.
Depending on the subject taught a decent webcam might be a good idea, 'hi-definition' webcams are now available at very little cost. What could I earn as a teacher? You could earn any rate you like per hour or half hour lesson, so the earning potential is almost limitless.
The rate would depend on your experience, the subject matter, and what people are willing to pay.
If you already teach you could greatly increase your number of students.
Say for example you already teach guitar to a handful of local people.
Now imagine how many new students you could get from a potential 2 billion people, you could turn a part time job into a full time job.

How would the booking and transactions work? The bookings can be taken care of using an online calendar system, where you mark out the times you will be available or unavailable and the students can then book lessons in your available time slots. Handling financial transactions are a little trickier on the Internet, how do you pay, do you pay before or after the lesson, what happens if someone doesn't turn up for the lesson, what if someone is a fraud? We have developed an online platform that takes all these concerns away from the teacher and student and mitigates the majority of the potential frauds that can occur on the internet. If you would like to learn more about this, come and see us at http://www.
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