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 ...

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 ...

As with other corporations and institutions during the coronavirus pandemic, American universities turned to virtual means to maintain their vital functions. Consequently, though synchronous and ...

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 ...

We are light-years beyond the initial pandemic shift into asynchronous learning in higher education, but we are still trying to identify the trends that work, weed out a few that didn’t and select the ...

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 ...

With schools shut down across America, K-12 teachers faced with a question many likely thought they’d never have to ask: When and how often during the school day do my students need to see me?

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 ...

Sitting alone in his empty classroom, Greenfield-Central High School English teacher Mike Foster works with his students by computer during a virtual class in April 2021. The state of Indiana just ...