Online Tutoring Platforms An online tutoring platform provides an online classroom for students and tutors to interact in real-time. They work in a similar way to Zoom, Teams, Google Meet or Skype and provide additional features to make online learning accessible. Some of the most popular online tutoring platforms include MyTutor, Skooli, Udemy, Wyzant and WizIQ. By signing up to an online tutoring platform, you automatically increase your client base. Online learning means you’re no longer restricted to teaching students within a few miles’ radius of your home, the world, quite literally, is your oyster. Perhaps the best thing about online tutoring platforms for self-employed tutors is the ability to market yourself within the confines of one website. Many online learning providers encourage their tutors to participate in chatroom sessions, forum discussions and to share their knowledge by writing blog posts as a way of marketing themselves within the site.
Example of a ‘virtual’ classroom in the Skooli platform With virtual classrooms being used as an alternative to real ones, students and tutors can talk, swap messages, share files and draw diagrams all at the click of a mouse. And in most cases, at the end of each lesson, pupils can play everything back to reinforce their learning. Although the future of learning is definitely online, it’s worth bearing in mind that there will always be a market for face-face tuition. An article published in the Telegraph, interviewed some of the UK’s leading online tutoring service providers and asked them to share their views on Page 96 77
