Online Teaching
as an Income Earning Method

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If you like to teach people in person, sign up for teaching websites. You can find specialized websites on various topics. You give an hourly rate for your service, and if you’re good at your field, you can even do online teaching as a full-time job.

The teaching business is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the online world. More and more people recognize the importance of lifelong learning and the benefits of the Internet for this purpose. It is also more profitable for companies these days to organize their training online, so they don’t have to employ an in-house teacher. It is why there is a good chance for anyone to make a secure living from teaching online.

Another alternative to teaching is to write an e-book or create a video tutorial. If you do this, it already falls into the category of passive income as you make your tutorial once and then sell the same to many students multiple times. If you wish to read more about this, visit our Online Tutorials page.

There are hundreds of sites for one-on-one online teaching. We introduce you to the best ones below. If we find more quality teaching websites, we will expand the list.

• Language Teaching

  italki

  
  
  

  Italki is the leading online platform for global language learning, a community that connects students and teachers for 1-on-1 online language lessons. It is on the market since 2007, which means only three years after Facebook has been launched. You can not only teach or learn on the site but find a great social network, human interactions, and cultural sharing of foreign language learners here. It is a fun, interesting, and very motivating way of learning a foreign language. Language learners can read other's articles, notebook entries, get learning tips, ask questions, or get their grammar corrected, get explanations, and help from other italki members for free.
  
  Italki has over 5 million students and 10,000 high-quality teachers teaching more than 130 languages.
  
  Requirements for becoming a teacher on the site: You have to be a native speaker in the language you are choosing to teach. There are two levels of language teachers: Without any formal certificate, you can be a Community Tutor, or if you have a university degree, teaching certification, or professional teaching experience, you can be a Professional Teacher on the site. You can set your hourly rates. The typical rates you can ask for are between $10-25 per hour.

• Mentoring

  Mentoring is a form of online teaching. There are thousands of teachers with some expertise for which they can often charge quite a high hourly rate from others. If you have some knowledge that you would like to pass on to others, take a look at this useful website that lists online mentoring platforms with a brief introduction to them: Growthmentor.com

  Clarity.fm

  We would like to introduce one of the best known Online Mentoring Platforms, Clarity.fm, where you can find mentors on plenty of topics. If you browse through the topics, you can find an area where you would like to mentor others and thus provide yourself with a passive source of income. You can easily find offers with a price of $ 1-16 / minute and those looking to learn are waiting their turn in queues!