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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The landscape of modern education has shifted effectively from the physical classroom to the digital realm. Students now have more choices than ever regarding how and when they engage with course ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Between time delays and trying to initiate dialogue through a screen, Zoom has changed the way instructors are facilitating synchronous classes online. Whether the class is large or small, ...

Five years ago, the claim that an online course can be just as effective and engaging as its equivalent in-person course may have raised eyebrows and possibly even ignited controversy. Since then, the ...

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 ...