Starting Your Online Tutoring Business – Become An Online Tutor In 10 Easy Steps

The Time To Become An Online Tutor Is Now (Updated 12/5/2020)  It’s no secret that the coronavirus of 2020 has had a huge impact on the economy in general, and specifically on education. From school closings to parents dealing with taking over the role of teacher while they work from home, education-related challenges from dealing with COVID-19 will likely be talked about for years to come. However, with great adversity also comes great opportunity. Since in-person tutoring and teaching comes with significant health risks, an increasing number of parents and students have been opting for remote virtual tutoring…

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The Case for Decentralized Connected Learning (Part 2: The Learning Exchange)

In May of 1971, two college students at Northwestern University named Denis Detzel and Robert Lewis who were inspired by Ivan Illich’s book “Deschooling Society” gathered a small group of students and local community members and founded The Learning Exchange. The Learning Exchange was later described by John McKnight (the founder of Asset-Based Community Development)…

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The Case for Decentralized Connected Learning (Part 1: Teaching & Learning Without Regulation?)

Since the future of learning is a hot topic these days (it’s about time), I wanted to write a personal and community development perspective about some of the positive side effects that have been documented by individual adult participants in communities who have created or used systems to connect informally to learn from each other….

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