online tutoring

Virtual academic help

Online tutoring is educational instruction delivered over the internet, typically one-on-one or in small groups via video chat, shared screens, and digital whiteboards.

It covers everything from elementary math to test prep to language learning: She found an online tutoring job that pays twenty dollars an hour.

The format allows students to connect with tutors anywhere in the world.

Opposites
delivery mode

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Teaching in school setting

private lessons · home tutoring · one-on-one coaching · correspondence courses

instructional format

online tutoringself-study

Learning independently, without guidance

independent learning · autodidacticism · self-directed learning · learning by doing · trial and error

formality and structure

online tutoringmass education

Teaching available to all

group classes

Family

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Top 20,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G