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 ...

Burdened by the combination of synchronous class sessions and pre-recorded lectures, students in STEM classes said they are spending more time "in class" than in a typical in-person semester.

On Jan. 8 the Arts & Sciences council heard a proposal to pilot synchronous, for-credit online courses in fall 2026. Thirteen ...

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 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 ...

A metaversity campus is both synchronous and asynchronous--classes taught live can be recorded and saved in a content library Digital twin campuses will be teeming with students at 10 U.S. colleges ...

With the right strategies and technologies, hybrid-flexible courses that combine face-to-face and online classes can create a seamless learning experience for students. During the pandemic, many ...

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 ...

What synchronous online class meeting platform do you use? My days are spent in Adobe Connect, as we have a requirement for up to 30 simultaneous webcam feeds (we ...

When Elizabeth Self starts teaching her 11 a.m. class via Zoom, she has to remember that it isn’t 11 a.m. for all of her students. She’s in Tennessee—where she is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt ...