Quality of the teacher: Skype gives students even more options to choose from when looking for a teacher since they are not restricted to their small local region.
Increased student performance: The same study indicates that students spend 22% more time performing during distance lessons than in face-to-face lessons.
Convenience: Students don’t have to travel 30 or 60 minutes to their teacher’s studio. Lessons online means no missed lessons due to forgetfulness since the student and teacher can connect 30 seconds after the courtesy call.
Convenience of Recording Lessons: Students can easily record Skype and Google+ lessons for review at a later time using audio/video recording software.
Immediate Practicing: Since SKYPE students don’t have to commute back home, they can practice immediately after the lesson when ideas are fresh and energy levels are still high. This means an extra practice session most SKYPE students will get, and the first practice session is the most important session of the entire week.
Parents Don’t Have To Wait: Parents drive to the studio – wait for the end of the lesson (1 hr) – then drive back home. This consumes a lot of time that could be better spent.
Warming Up: Students can warm-up right up to the time of the lesson.
Off-task behaviors: According to a study in 2010, off-task behaviors took up 36% more time in face-to-face lessons than in distance lessons. The study also finds that eye contact during distance lessons is more frequent.
Don’t Have To Be In The Same Room: Students won’t need to cancel lessons because they had an illness two days before and are still “contagious” (stomach flues can be contagious for up to two weeks after symptoms have passed).
Make-up lessons: Because internet lessons are such efficient use of lesson time (no commute, for example) , make-up lessons are much easier to schedule.
Amazing Views: The camera can be positioned in places where it would be impossible to put one’s head, allowing the student views of finger positioning not really possible face to face.
You can have lessons when you or your teacher are on vacation. You are never forced to part for geographic reasons.
If the weather doesn’t cooperate… We can still get to our lessons when the roads are too icy to drive.
