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 ...
Virtual learning and educational technology were not altogether new when the pandemic struck; in the realm of language teaching, however, they were often negated as unlikely to offer students ...
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 ...
Asynchronous learning is gradually becoming a favorable learning module because it is learner-centric, self-paced, cost-effective, and location-independent. Learners can not only gain access to ...
Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. is putting a plan together for how the district will conduct potential virtual learning days in future school years and intends to build in more snow days in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...