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 offers flexibility that can be extremely beneficial for learners, but without real-time interaction, this modality can also create challenges with organization, connection, 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 ...

Whether you're taking a course asynchronously, navigating a large lecture hall, or juggling multiple responsibilities, college learning requires strong habits, self-direction, and proactive engagement ...

Leah Zitter is a technical writer who covers high tech. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology research and a master’s in philosophy and advanced logic. Eleven years ago, researchers warned in the journal ...

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 ...

Maintaining academic integrity in the age of generative AI is a headache for all professors. But those who teach large-enrollment and asynchronous courses are in a particularly challenging spot. If ...

The evolution of education has been a fascinating journey, marked by significant shifts in pedagogy and technology. From the ancient Greek philosophers to the modern-day online classroom, one constant ...

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming ...

It would be hard to imagine higher education in the twenty-first century without educational technology, online learning, and, increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI). While technological tools and ...