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Incorporate asynchronous learning opportunities

Incorporate asynchronous learning opportunities

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Incorporate asynchronous learning opportunities

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- [Instructor] The majority of your online course design will likely be planning asynchronous learning opportunities. And certainly, many self-guided virtual courses are built entirely of asynchronous learning. But here, I'd like to talk about the benefits and the logistics of successfully planning the asynchronous portion of a virtual classroom that contains a blend of both types of learning. Now if you think of your synchronous learning as the anchors of your online instruction, where you're strategically connecting with learners in real time over the course of a unit of study, your asynchronous learning is everything else. This includes any instance where learners engage with materials in their own time. Things like prerecorded lectures, uploaded readings, videos, assignments, quizzes, asynchronous discussion forums, and more. Asynchronous learning is often more flexible than synchronous learning, because as long as…

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