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What could an Online classroom look like?
We have been talking with people that are currently holding schools online and seeing the ways they are doing it.
For the purpose of what we discuss here, we are primarily talking about post-High School learning.
Ways
Present
There are schools holding their classrooms with students in them, just not all the students.
Synchronous
This is where the student is attending the class at the same time as the physical students. These students may be in the same City, same Timezone or anywhere else in the world. They can participate just like a student who is physically present. The teacher ot lecture for the day or week could equally be present or anywhere else in the world.
Asynchronous
This student is present for the purpose of doing all the work, watching the lectures, and doing the course assignment, just not at the same time as the live students.
They may come in periodically if their timezone allows.
Aquiring
I create this last category for someone who may enter the class long after it is over.
The interest is to be able to listen to the lectures, they may do the assignments, but there may be no one available to give a mark, and grading would not be done.
Autodidact
This opens up the larger issue that is facing higher education of creating lifelong learners, self-learner, and overcoming the student/teacher barrier. This often exists in the mind of the learner as: they can only learn if someone teachers them. And even sometimes in the mind of a teacher, they can only learn if they are taught.
The Lecture Barrier
An interesting side issue that may be cropping up is that the lecture is becoming too accessible. This is only at an uncomfortable level for the lecturer, but great for the student.
Previously we had a sage on a stage, twenty meters away, with a mic and no real way for the student to ask a question, interject or disagree.
Now the lecture is ten centimeters away, and in seeming very close, the lecture becomes personal, the student is right there with their own mic able to ask a question at any moment.
Zoom may give the lecturer control to keep every one mic off. Google Meet lets you turn people's mic off, but people can turn them back on, but both Zoom and Meet have a chat portion that anyone can write in at any time.
The classroom has become democratized.
