Private or home tutorship is common nowadays all over the world.
Over in Malaysia however, the idea has yet to reach their full
potential since most parents are more interested in sending their
kids to tuition centres. Hence it is not surprising to see that
Malaysians that has teaching experiences and credentials especially
those working in public schools and universities took the
opportunity to make some extra money by working part time in tuition
centres.
As time goes by, more and more Malaysian parents are beginning to
realize that hiring private or home tutors to take care of their
children’s education would be more beneficial. By hiring private or
home tutors, parents could easily monitor their children’s learning
progress. What is most important to most parents is that they do not
have to worry that their children would befriend bad companies
outside. There’s nothing wrong with tuition centres, it is just that
it would not be easy for parents to monitor their children’s social
behaving while they were out learning. Malaysian parents have always
been concerned about the moral upbringing of their children and this
has triggered nationwide demands for the provision of more home
private tuitions.
This increasing demand of home private tuitions in Malaysia has
obviously been heard by local entrepreneurs. They knew that this
demand has enormous potential and it didn’t take them long to find
ways to capitalize on it. In the last few years, I have seen a
number of newly established tutor matching websites that provides
free listings of tutors that are readily making themselves available
in the provision of home private tuitions for the Malaysian market.
I am not at all surprised to see that majority of the tutors on the
online listings are Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indians.
Malaysian Malays as always are not truly aware of this new
opportunity for their well known hesitation and ignorance in
following up with current world or local issues and trends have once
again got the better of them. I sincerely hope that my article today
would open their eyes on this opportunity in the home private
tuition market. From what I was told, some wealthy Malaysian parents
are willing to pay top dollars to get the services of top notched
home private tutors. This is no laughing matter for some of our
Malaysian home private tutors are getting more than part time tutors
in tuition centres! So, if you play your cards right, you too can
make a decent amount of money from this opportunity.
While we are on the subject of online tutoring, I would like to
share with everyone something that I had observed when I was in
Japan last year. It is more on eLearning or E-Learning but it is not
that far off from what I have been writing here today. E-Learning or
eLearning was actually introduced and made popular by the higher
learning institutions in the US and UK but it is countries like
Japan, China and Hong Kong that really turn eLearning or E-Learning
into phenomenal home based money making opportunities! In Tokyo for
an example, time is really short (that’s what you get when you are
living in big metropolitan cities!) and people there are always on
the lookout for any shortcuts to gain success or pursue knowledge.
What some ingenious Japanese did to solve this problems are by
providing eLearning or E-Learning websites right from the comfort of
their homes! What is more amazing is that it is not limited to
online tutoring for children alone. They went a few steps further by
also providing a variety of other educational programs such as
cooking, personal finance management, motivation, self improvement
and even business management!
What the Japanese did was really an eye opener for me. I did a
little research on my own last few months and I must say that I was
absolutely delighted when I found that it is not entirely impossible
to run eLearning or E-Learning web services nowadays. You do not
even have to spend any money to get the necessary eLearning or
E-Learning software modules since most of them can be downloaded for
free from Open Source websites such as SourceForge. All you need to
do is to define your niche and prepare all your learning modules
according to any specific learning calendar. The hardest part would
be in finding ways to market your online learning services to the
public. After what I had seen over in Japan, I have full confidence
that online tutorials such as what I had disclosed earlier can
indeed work in other countries as well and that includes Malaysia.
This is an absolute gold mine!
Now that you know what online tutoring is all about, I need to
hear your opinion on something. Can online tutoring provide quality
learning experience and solution that is on par with conventional
learning method? Please leave your answer down below.
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About the author |
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Saidul A Shaari
is the principal and founder of
Sahabatul
Ventures, specializing in helping aspiring home based entrepreneurs
establish and setup their online businesses cost effectively.
An enterprising business individual who turn half ideas into real
money making opportunities.
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