Tutoring in a Covid-19 world and what it has done to the Tutor Market
So Covid came along and Tutors and Students who used to meet at the Library or a Students home, were prevented from doing this due to Lockdowns. Some Tutors pivoted to doing online sessions, some just quit. Students were left with no Tutor and struggling even more now that their schools were subject to the same Lockdowns.
Two years later, the market has shifted from Face to Face Tutoring to a lot of sessions being conducted online. Tutors found that they were as effective and even more effective in one on one Online sessions as they learnt to leverage tools that were available like online messaging, in session chat messaging.
This lead to even better Tutor Platforms that had auto recording of sessions. This meant that the students got a recording of each one of their Tutor sessions. The student could then use these Recordings to replay the session as they came up to tests and Student assessments.
During the same time frame, Tutors provided feedback that it would be helpful if there was some key content that could be used to boost a Student’s core knowledge of a subject either after or before a Tutoring session. For example, if a Student was struggling with core concept in VCE Physics, the Tutor could advise the student to review the content in a Pre-Recorded Video Lesson and get a better grasp of the concept.
At AirLearners.com, we saw the need and started hiring high achieving ATAR Students to create and Publish Pre-Recorded video Lessons specifically tailored to boost a Students core knowledge on a subject, for example VCE Physics Unit 3 Intro to VCE Physics. This lesson was designed as a Quick Review of Units 1 and 2 and prepare Students for VCE Physics Unit 3 and 4.
The range of Lessons has now increased to include:
VCE Physics Revision of Units 1 and 2, Special Relativity Unit 3 and a whole lot more.
VCE Legal Studies. This subject is content heavy and the Video Lessons help student revise fast by watching the Video Lessons. You can find them here.
VCE Business Management, similar to VCE Legal Studies, there Lessons help students revise content in short Video Lessons. You can find them here.
and a whole lot more including NAPLAN Preparation.
Students who want to catch up or get ahead, can purchase the lessons (we typically provide the first Lesson for free) and the Video Lessons stay in the Student Library for fast revision. They can play the Video Lessons as many times as they like for revision purposes.
So Covid with all its down sides has led to better ways to catch up, higher quality Tutoring as the Lessons cover the core and Tutors can focus on the ways to excel rather then covering core content.
Summary
The Tutoring market has benfited from this new hybrid model. Students can get higher quality Tutoring, conduct their own self paced revision and get access to the best Tutors where ever they or the Tutor are located.
Welcome to the world Online Tutoring, it sure has changed.