synchronous learning
Live classroom instruction
Synchronous learning is education where participants engage at the same time, whether in person or through live video.
Students and instructors interact in real time, allowing immediate questions and discussion.
The term gained currency during the shift to remote education, contrasting with asynchronous learning, where students access materials on their own schedule: The course combines synchronous lectures with asynchronous readings.
- instant messagingLive online text communication
- simultaneousHappening at same time
- video conferencingReal-time audiovisual communication online
- virtual classroomsOnline educational meeting spaces
- peer teachingStudents educating one another
live lecture · group project · cohort · webinars · realtime · Socratic questioning · breakout rooms · scheduled · screen sharing · chat rooms · instructor · participation · face to face · concept mapping · networking opportunities · streaming services · virtual · chat
- e-learningonline courses, online course, virtual classrooms, virtual classroom, distance education
- instructional designinstructional materials, course design, backward design, Bloom's taxonomy, scaffolding
synchronous learningasynchronous learning
Education without live sessions
recorded lectures · MOOC · self-paced learning · correspondence courses · correspondence course
synchronous learningself-paced learning
Education proceeding at individual speed
self-directed learning · self-study · independent study · independent learning · autodidacticism
learning, learner, chronicle, synchronize, chronology, synchronous