Yesterday I attended a class of Vikrama Dhiman about the new Learning Request System from WiZiQ, so basically about how to find students on this platform.
Although the audio was not very good I think I understood the idea 
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And did you notice: they changed the new logo back to the old color scheme. Well done!
Shall you convert your offline students to online students? What are the advantages? What are the disadvantages?
I came across this question in a community forum of an online teaching platform. The biggest problem of those platforms seems to be: How to get paying students. Interesting enough most of these platforms have no solution to this problem when asked by their teachers. Au contraire, they ask their teachers how they think to get students on the platform.
And the most discussed issue is: why don’t you simply convert your offline students into online students by bringing them to our platform?
So, here are my thoughts on this.
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You have a student who wants to learn English with you. Normally, you would go to your car, drive through the town, get into traffic jams, arrive too late, spent money on fuel, loose time on the way…
Now imagine this. You have a student who wants to learn English with you. You get yourself a fresh coffee, go to your PC, login to the virtual classroom, call your student via Skype and you start your lesson.
Wouldn’t it be great?… But why would?… It IS great! Continue reading
