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 ...

01 Asynchronous instructional delivery course section that is available to students 24/7 via the web, and no intermittent face-to-face meetings are scheduled and students do not receive instruction in ...

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 ...

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 ...

In late September, Purdue’s Brightspace site will be updated to include synchronous quizzing. With this new feature, instructors will be able to set their timed quizzes to be synchronous or ...