So the students need to learn the material and they may need some sort of help from a teacher or mentor
In self paced or asynchronous learning, student studies material in his or her own time and essence of this is a web site which may of course be generated from a back-end web-linked database
optimal for highly motivated mature students such as those in continuing education
electronic version of using a library
In synchronous learning, teacher selects material from website and delivers it in electronic virtual class rooms
Homework is set from same website which remains a base asynchronous resource
Natural when teachers insight delivers motivation and clarification of key material to student