The image used in this post is of a small group of students sitting in a room together, (seemingly) energetically talking about the issues at hand. This is an example of synchronous discussion—the ...

I keep hearing the same complaint from parents: “I don’t want my children on these long videoconference calls. It is making them miserable.” These long, synchronous classroom calls which have become ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are specific strategies, lessons, and tools that you have used to encourage asynchronous classroom discussions in a hybrid or remote learning environment? In the ...

The flipped classroom model generated a lot of excitement initially, but more recently some educators -- even those who were initial advocates -- have expressed disillusionment with the idea of ...

Students are looking for learning-life balance, and technology tools can make it easier for colleges and universities to help them achieve it. The way students learn has fundamentally changed.

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh. A ...

If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make ...

Full-time faculty who teach or are preparing to teach online asynchronous (ONLA) courses, as well as staff who support the design and delivery of ONLA courses. Moving beyond the binary of ...

The question, “Should online learning should replace classroom learning?” is a complex and contentious issue. While online education offers flexibility and accessibility, traditional classroom ...