Traditional Education "favors" synchronous style but if you use Web, it is clearly easier to chose asynchronous
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Need to remove historical biases in learning models
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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
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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
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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.
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Basic strategy is to support simultaneously asynchronous and synchronous learning
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