An Online English Academy is a type of school where students and teachers interact via internet to conduct their English lessons. Online academies use different video conferencing programs to communicate with each other. Online schools get English native-speakers or Foreigners who use English as their secondary language, like Filipinos, Thai, and etc...
The most famous online students are Koreans. As far as we know, they're the first ones who actually founded the idea of online classes. It started in phone classes and then later on- video classes. As years go by, not only Koreans study online. We have Chinese, Brazilians, Japanese and other non-English speakers.
There are tools and other materials that we use in teaching online. We have clear web cameras, headsets, computers, books and virtual whiteboards. There are many academic websites that conduct online classes using their own programs, too. But the most famous tool that we use is Skype.
Skype is a very convenient program that allows online teachers to conduct their classes. It also has a desktop sharing button which allows teachers to show the book to their students. And the most special thing about Skype is that you can use it for free!
If you know other useful programs for online teaching please comment below!
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