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 ...
Burdened by the combination of synchronous class sessions and pre-recorded lectures, students in STEM classes said they are spending more time "in class" than in a typical in-person semester.
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 ...
When Gary Rosche shows up to class twice a week, he’s expected to have his reading done. He’s expected to contribute to conversation, and when he has a question, he’s expected to ask it right then and ...
A petition urging USC to cancel synchronous classes on Election Day has amassed more than 440 signatures since it was launched Friday. Arianna Bollens, a freshman majoring in sociology, said she was ...
Back in March, the University made it clear that classes would be in-person for the 2021-2022 school year. After over a year of online learning, most students made the decision to return to ...
There were lots of reasons for professors to avoid synchronous instruction at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Students are scattered across different times zones, their access to computers ...
In “Learning How to Blend Online and Offline Teaching,” my friend Bob Ubell explores how pandemic-era remote instruction may persist in a post-COVID academic world. (Bob interviewed me for and ...
FLORENCE, Ky. (WKRC) – It’s called the “mute and walk,” every teacher’s nightmare in the new days of instructing online during the coronavirus pandemic. “Where they literally turn off their video ...