While asynchronous sessions are a very important component of online learning to offer the student more flexibility in schedules, integrating synchronous learning sessions will offer students a more face-to-face class feel. Synchronous sessions could be used for students to present projects to other classmates or to the instructor as well as the instructor demonstrating new concepts. There are many resources that instructors can use to facilitate synchronous sessions. A few are listed below along with links to their website:
Some guidelines an online instructor should keep in mind while developing synchronous sessions have been established to make the online learning experience productive and effective for everyone involved.
- Plan sessions and make sure to stay focused to keep from wasting participant's time
- Allow some flexibility in the beginning until everyone becomes familiar with the technology
- Create an instruction guide on how to access the session and make it available to all participants
- Instructors should log in early to prepare for students
- Technology can let us down so be prepared for an glitches (A backup plan)
- Try to incorporate activities that appeal to all learner types
- Have everything ready before the session so that students have access to all instructional materials
- Try to be engaging. A boring monotone lecture will lose the students
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