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Foil 5 Asynchronous and Synchronous Learning

From Master Set of WebWisdom Education and Training System: Distributed SC97 Education Presentation -- 16 November97. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Traditional Education "favors" synchronous style but if you use Web, it is clearly easier to chose asynchronous
  • Need to remove historical biases in learning models
2 Role of Teacher in synchronous Web based learning system is that of a Tour Guide to a rich (asynchronous) Web Site of material the student can return to
  • In our course at Jackson State, there is 100 megabytes of teacher delivered foils and 150 megabytes of "tutorial material" which are highlighted in synchronous classes
3 As well as remote "deliverer of lecture", there is a local "mentor" at JSU while in general homework can be set and graded either remotely or on site.
4 Basic strategy is to support simultaneously asynchronous and synchronous learning

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