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 ...
The bell rings at 10:00 a.m. A teacher begins explaining quadratic equations. Some students lean forward, pencils ready. Others stare at the clock. A few are still turning yesterday’s lesson over in ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Academics are agonising over the wrong elements of online education. They should be thinking about active versus passive learning, says Simon Chesterman Over the course of the pandemic, educators – ...
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 ...
If you have school-aged kids, you've probably experienced eLearning this school year. Bitter cold temperatures, snowfall, and icy conditions have forced many school districts in the region to delay, ...