Navigate 1 - Delineating Asynchronous and Synchronous Learning

Navigate 1 - Delineating Asynchronous and Synchronous Learning

Asynchronous:

• Providing content that can be access at any time.
• Teachers and students may or may not be looking at the content and work at the same time.
• Communicate through means such as:
• email
• video
• Learning management system
• blog 
• texting - if waiting for response in own time
• FAQ page
• Adantages:
• Student
• Student works at own pace.
• Student works when it is convenient for him/her.
• Student can post or send communication as they run into problems.
• Student can go back and reread or re-watch material as many times as they like.
• Teacher
• Teacher works when it is convenient for him/her in a timely manner (24 hours to 48 hours).
• Teacher can update or add to content with immediate results.
• Planned and determined presentation of content.
• Disadvantages:
• Student
• Student may have to wait for answers to move on.
• Depends on availability of internet or phone services.
• Teacher and student communicate in a way that is 'blind' to some forms of personality or communication preferences.
• Teacher
• Teacher may have to wait/ remind student of pacing guidelines.
• Depends on availability of internet or phone services.
• Teacher and student communicate in a way that is 'blind' to some forms of personality or communication preferences.

Synchronous:

• Teacher and student(s) are at the same place at the same time.
• Communicate through
•  Traditional F2F classrooms
• iClassrooms as in Adobe
• Skype
• FaceTime
• Phone
• texting - if going back and forth in a short time.
• Face to face meeting if hybrid class.
• Advantages
• Immediate back and forth dialogue
• Spontaneous learning
• Questions that may not come up in a FAQ can come up in 'class'
• Examples done in real time
• Multiple students may attend and interact with teacher.
• Teacher and student see/hear each other which give both a more realistic view of how the other interprets and reacts
• Disadvantages:
• Dependent on both parties technologies.
• Finding a common time.
• Geographical distance may give less options for meetings.
• Hybrid - finding geological location that is convenient to all parties
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