Synchronous and Asynchronous Distance Learning
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The participants interact in a specific
virtual environment at a set time.
Methods include: video conferencing, teleconferencing, live chatting,
and live-streamed lectures.
Main advantages are classroom engagement, dynamic learning, and instructional depth.
Participants interact regularly
and frequently with their trainers.
The disadvantages of this format
of distance learning arise from possible unpredictable work.
Does not happen in real time,
it happens on students' schedules.
Methods include self-guided lesson modules, lecture notes, virtual libraries, pre-recorded video.
Students work through the study material themselves, and only occasionally interact.
The main advantages of this form of learning are expressed by flexibility, pacing and affordability.
The disadvantages of asynchronous distance learning stem from the lack of personal interaction.
