Tony Bates offers text toward a revision of this open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age, and in particular, the section on synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning. The major change is an addition of a discussion of online versus in-person synchronous learning. Prior to the pandemic, Bates writes, most online learning was asynchronous, consisting of pre-recorded resources, but the sudden shift led us to reconsider both the online and offline form of teaching using live lectures, discussions, and the like. I'm not sure I exactly agree; before the pandemic tons of learning was happening in synchronous sessions online (through applications such as Skype, Elluminate, Connect and many more). And I'm not sure the claim that there was a 'lack of research' in these modes can be quantified. I'd be inclined to say that the lessons were relearned during the pandemic.
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