If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make ...
Asynchronous learning is gradually becoming a favorable learning module because it is learner-centric, self-paced, cost-effective, and location-independent. Learners can not only gain access to ...
A fully remote semester has forced many students at the University of Massachusetts to balance the structure of synchronous classes with the freedom of asynchronous classes. Some students agree that ...
This is not a normal quarter. Students and faculty who would otherwise be living and working on the same campus are attending classes from all parts of the country and world. Moreover, not all have ...
Eunice Costilla Cruz and Elizabeth Marcial Morales examine the right time to make use of synchronous moments in virtual courses, and when asynchronous ones are more suitable Virtual courses have ...
Examining possibilities for synchronous and asynchronous learning could help institutional leaders better frame learning in the COVID-19 era Recently, my friend and futurist Bryan Alexander posited ...
The image used in this post is of a small group of students sitting in a room together, (seemingly) energetically talking about the issues at hand. This is an example of synchronous discussion—the ...
There were lots of reasons for professors to avoid synchronous instruction at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Students are scattered across different times zones, their access to computers ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on how we work and interact. This is a result of companies moving to remote work in order to protect their employees. This change has however now ...