Should you hire a home tutor for your child or use our free coaching platform at Stoplearn?

First and foremost, home tutors are human and human are largely irreplaceable. But at Stoplearn.com, we have put humans at the back end of our system to interact with students without coming to your home. So this brings the question if online digital learning will eventually replace the concept of hiring external coach and tutors for your child at home and after school?

First of all we will look at the benefits of a human home tutor:

1. Home tutors interacts with your kid and understand them because they are human. When you hire a home tutor, you are sure that the tutor will invest some time to interact and really understand your child better.
2. Child can read tutor’s body language and understand even what the teacher is not saying.
3. The parent get to select their preferred tutor and tried to build a relationship with the person.

So if you look at all the advantages of getting a home tutor for your child, it all centers on the relationship advantage a human that is physically present can give to you the parent and the child.

However this comes with its downsides.

So let’s see the disadvantages of getting a home tutor:

1. Some students, especially introverts, may not feel comfortable around a stranger. This type of students usually prefer to read on their own than to listen to someone physically present talk to them. So hiring a home tutor for this type of students may hinder learning.
2. One home tutor can not really master all subjects. This means the parent may need to hire multiple home tutors for different subjects. This is a bit complex.
3. Home tutors may be expensive: Many parents may not afford to pay single or multiple home tutors after paying the child’s school fees.
4. It may not be safe to invite a stranger to your home: This is not always the case but it may not be safe to leave your home or child with a home tutor you just hired. This is a very important factor to consider before hiring someone to tutor your child. You must vet and know the person very well but this still may not suffice.

Having said all these, you may have seen that home tutors are not going away any time soon.

But what about the Stoplearn.com come remote tutoring approach?

Our idea is to bring the entire secondary school to the student via digital means at absolutely free of any charge. What do we mean by this?

You the parent only need to provide a tablet or personal computer or internet enabled mobile phone and your child will learn at his or her own pace.

So what are the unique advantages of using Stoplearn.com instead of a Home tutor?

1. Stoplearn.com is absolutely free! We built this platform out of our passion to bring quality education to every child out there. We believe quality education is not supposed to be a luxury or a privilege. We have invested a lot of our resources to acquire lesson notes in line with the current syllable and also we partnered with animation and video producers to present to you a high quality and engaging content all at no cost. We only hope to make tokens from advertising.
2. We have high quality animation and media that engages the student better than a live tutor with a white board. This media contents is far proven to be more engaging and enhance learning better than demonstration on a white board.
3. Students can learn at their own pace. With stoplearn.com, students can learn at their own pace. They don’t have to learn only within the tutor’s alloted time. They can rewind videos as many times as possible and they can learn at their own pace and comfort position and comfort zone. Stoplearn.com makes learning fun for the student in so many ways.
4. Students can ask our human tutors question and get feedback in their email: To mitigate the effect of not having a human tutor around, we developed a addon that let’s the student ask our human tutors question any time. We answer the question and our student get feedback and notification straight to their email! This premium service is completely free for everyone.
5. Student can virtually interact with other learners using our Discussion forum: We also have a built in discussion forum where students can interact with other students and socialize. This option is only found in a real school so we try to bring the real school to every user at no cost!

What about the disadvantages of using an online platform?

The major downside is that there is no physical tutor that the student will physically interact with.

But with the advent of COVID 19, virtual classes has become a new normal. Also anyone can use Stoplearn.com platform. Even those with home tutors can use it too.