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 ...

With schools shut down across America, K-12 teachers faced with a question many likely thought they’d never have to ask: When and how often during the school day do my students need to see me?

As online education continues to increase in popularity, the choice between synchronous and asynchronous classes plays a key role in addressing the diverse needs of learners. Asynchronous learning, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Creating videos, presentations, and lessons that college students access and interact with on their own time and terms is one thing, but developing learning content that requires both students and ...

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 ...

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 ...