Navigate 1.1.1 Delineating Between Synchronous and Asynchronous Content Quest

The differences in the asynchronous and synchronous methods of delivery.

San Francisco-based writer, Paul Signorelli‘s Building Creative Bridges blog post, Synchronous Sessions, Asynchronously: Blending Meetings, Learning, and Digital Literacy

• Skype - Synchronous
• virtual face-to-face just-in-time lesson in using Excel and PowerPoint - Asynchronous
• Google docs - Asynchronous
• Google Hangout - Synchronous

Michigan State University College of Education’s Learning 3.0: Face-to-face, Online, Hybrid

• MOOC - Asynchronous
• The question was , When is it appropriate to have Asynchronous learning and Synchronous learning? How much of each should occure? Does it depend on the student? the course? the institution?
• GoToMeeting - Synchronous
• Google Hangouts - Synchronous
• Etherpad - Synchronous
• Adobe Connect meeting - Synchronous

The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation’s interactive diagram and description of blended learning.

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Synchronous - means that the people working together are in Synch - they can communicate in real time.
Asynchronous - this means that one person posts the first part of the dialogue and later, at a different time another persoon can access the dialogue and respond.