Teaching Online: Balancing Synchronous & Asynchronous Teaching

Teaching Online: Balancing Synchronous & Asynchronous Teaching

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Centre for Academic Practice, Trinity College Dublin

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Teaching & Learning

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Digital Learning, Teaching and Learning Practice

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This OER presents the benefits and challenges from both asynchronous and synchronous teaching ; while the OER also presents some practice implications for educators to consider.

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In a synchronous (real-time) teaching context, a lecturer can use lecture capture/lecturecast software (e.g. Panopto),video conferencing tools (e.g. Collaborate Ultra/Zoom), or text-based interfaces (e.g. chat functions) to interact with students in real-time. Asynchronous teaching might involve students engaging with short lecture captures (e.g.Panopto), webinar recordings, and/or collaborating with time delays in discussions via forums, blogs, wikis which are moderated and facilitated by the lecturer.

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Centre for Academic Practice, and Trinity College Dublin (2021). Teaching online: balancing synchronous & asynchronous teaching. National Resource Hub (Ireland). Retrieved from: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/teaching-online-balancing-synchronous-asynchronous-teaching/ License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY).

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