Imagine a brand new suitcase with a broken handle. You can’t throw it away because it’s new, but can you use it? There’s a saying in Russian about “a suitcase without a handle — heavy to carry, but hard to…
Posts tagged Online Teaching
How to Advertise as an Independent Tutor
After LearnOutLive’s recent article on the pitfalls of being an online teacher highlighted just a small part of the challenges faced by teachers who choose to go for unconventional methods, I started thinking about independent teaching. Being a tutor, a teacher and…
3 Reasons Why Online Teachers Fail
Online teaching is still a mystery to many people. How does it work? What are the requirements? Does it pay the bills? Where to start? There are many websites that promise online teachers a quick and effortless start. I’ve found,…
How To Create Doodle Videos For Language Teaching
Did you know that Doodle Videos can be a great way to teach languages? We don’t learn a language only by reading, or only by listening. Learning a language is a multi-sensory process. Looking at a text or listening alone is…
The Flipped Office: Work at Home, Relax Outside
The concept of the “flipped classroom” refers to a reversal of traditional teaching, where the lecturing part happens outside of the classroom (i.e. through videos, reading, etc.) and the exercise or interaction part happens inside the classroom. While the “flipped…
Nina Hanáková: Learning doesn’t belong to schools with desks and coursebooks
The following interview is part of an interview series in which we feature education professionals from a variety of different fields in order to highlight individual efforts and creative solutions to education in the 21st century. If you want to participate simply…
Sylvia Guinan: Online teaching should not be just for adults or business people
The following interview is part of an interview series in which we feature education professionals from a variety of different fields in order to highlight individual efforts and creative solutions to education in the 21st century. If you want to participate simply…
Dave Nicholls: Technology has changed my working life in a massive way
The following interview is part of an interview series in which we feature education professionals from a variety of different fields in order to highlight individual efforts and creative solutions to education in the 21st century. If you want to…
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Education Is Ripe For Disruption Education is changing worldwide. Technology has had its toll on the way we learn and teach. Policy-makers often fail to live up to their promises,but besides state-run schools and universities many new varieties of learning…
Free Online Teaching Directory: Tutors Shouldn’t Pay For Listings
When I announced two months ago that we opened a directory for online tutors the response from teachers and tutors was very positive. Up to now many people have registered their online teaching websites and receive traffic from us every day….
10 More Steps To Your Online Teaching Website
Yesterday I was speaking to my colleague George Machlan about the teachers directory here at learnoutlive. Since he linked back to the directory from his own site, his ranking shot to the top very quickly and he receives regular traffic…
10 Steps To Your Online Teaching Website
We all see dozens of websites every day. There are many great ones and even more not so great ones. Especially when it comes to online teaching websites I found that many online teachers are needlessly complicating and cluttering their…
