Asynchronous study has emerged as an essential feature of teaching and learning in higher education. Curriculum designers build in asynchronous activities as part of students’ journey to achieving ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Susan Gentz As school ...

Two scary words: online asynchronous. Why? First, teaching asynchronously is a lot of work – more so than teaching in person or online synchronously. Second, if not done well, the teacher-student ...

Students are looking for learning-life balance, and technology tools can make it easier for colleges and universities to help them achieve it. The way students learn has fundamentally changed.

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 ...

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 ...

We all know the feeling of having our class finally approach cruising altitude—only to hear that our peers, administrators, and the Internet at large have just discovered the next best way of ensuring ...

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 ...

Years ago, bad winter weather would have meant schools call a snow day. But many schools have been opting for students to participate in virtual learning days, (sometimes called elearning) where they ...