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 ...

The best preparation for running successful web meetings is teaching synchronous online class sessions. If you are good at teaching synchronously online class sessions (through platforms like Connect, ...

It was with trepidation that I accepted the challenge to include more synchronous (sync) activities into my online classes. I learned to teach online at a time when sync was not an option. Sync ...

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 ...

It has not been a simple transition from face-to-face to virtual education! Although this type of teaching existed long before the pandemic, it had never been envisioned that the majority of the ...

Multimodal course design is an instructional approach that integrates multiple delivery methods—such as in-person, synchronous online, and/or asynchronous components—within a single course structure.

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 ...

Each class and each instructor is going to be a little different and have different needs. In general, to promote student learning, we have to think about providing them with information, giving them ...