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 ...

Leah Zitter is a technical writer who covers high tech. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology research and a master’s in philosophy and advanced logic. Eleven years ago, researchers warned in the journal ...

Mary Nestor, Millie Tullis and James Butler write that a recent opinion essay presented a distorted view of the possibilities of asynchronous course design. Many institutions now offer effective ...

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in March, colleges across the country have experimented with synchronous and asynchronous learning — the difference between holding classes in real-time over the ...

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 ...

We are light-years beyond the initial pandemic shift into asynchronous learning in higher education, but we are still trying to identify the trends that work, weed out a few that didn’t and select the ...

Sitting alone in his empty classroom, Greenfield-Central High School English teacher Mike Foster works with his students by computer during a virtual class in April 2021. The state of Indiana just ...

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 ...

I keep hearing the same complaint from parents: “I don’t want my children on these long videoconference calls. It is making them miserable.” These long, synchronous classroom calls which have become ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. William Arruda covers personal branding, leadership, and careers. The explosion of on-demand learning has made courses on ...

Houston ISD has paused plans for what state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles called synchronous learning, a setup where students would learn remotely from another teacher while their own teacher ...

Houston ISD has paused plans for what state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles called synchronous learning, a setup where students would learn remotely from another teacher while their own teacher ...