There’s One Place Where Remote Learning Has Been a Huge Success

Erika Larkin has a waitlist that extends up to six weeks for in-person lessons at Creighton Farms, the picturesque golf course she works at in Aldie, Va. But over the past two years, she’s expanded her business well beyond the Washington suburbs by using social media, where she posts videos that mix a sense of humor with simple-to-follow swing tips to her64,000 followers.

Larkin still spends most of her day conducting traditional lessons and estimates that only 10% of her time is taken up with online instruction. She just works that part in during her normal six- to eight-hour teaching day.