Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Viaje]

I've seen a few ads listed, even on cragslist but also at Dave's, for teaching English online. One ad says it pays 30,000 won per hour. Considering its a stay at home job that sounds pretty good to me. I realize many of you wanted to the full experience of living in Asia, etc. but I'm wondering if the online thing is a good deal, is it something fairly new and is it the thing of the future?

[D.D.]

It would be ok in 15 minute or 30 minute sessions. But trying to talk to the same person for 60 minutes bucks would be tough.

[lifeinkorea]

You would need to speak the language of your student or someone to recruit for you. They would want a cut from what you could be paid in person. So, cheap group lessons sound like the way to go.

You could then have higher level students interact while lower level students just listen and pay a "beginner's" fee.

[wings]

I have some friends who do online teaching with Koreans from Canada. They are only paid 10$ an hour though. At least they don't have to worry about the exchange rate. One friend told me it's a good deal since often the people are too busy to anser the phone (it is VOIP conversation) but they get paid anyway. She also told me that the students are sometimes really drunk and/or at norebang and they have really hilarious conversations.

[ddeubel]

Another option would be to just find the students online yourself. I know lots of teachers doing it. Not hard these days to arrange payment.

There are some sites offering to "hook up" teachers and students but they almost always take a big cut and in my opinion, for nothing. The web is there, is cheap and you can just do it yourself. Short learning curve and why be a slave.

We have free rooms on EFL Classroom 2.0. You can even post up a classified. The Scribblar in particular, is great for teaching. The voice quality exceptional. http://eflclassroom.com/scribblar.html

Our other room with video works and you can make your own private teaching room. http://host1.gchats.com/eflclassroom/

David
http://eflclassroom.ning.com

[maingman]

http://schoolofeverything.com/

[maingman]

http://schoolofeverything.com/

[Robot_Teacher]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

My school district has a cyber learning centre. All but one teacher who's taught there has either generally or greatly disliked the teaching aspect of the job. The one who prefered it to classroom teaching still quit midway through his contract for various reasons.