Key Points and Takeaways:
- Students have mixed feelings about asynchronous instruction.
- Community college students are particularly vulnerable in asynchronous settings.
- Consistent engagement in a learning community is key to asynchronous teaching and learning.
- Information should be presented in an easily accessible, repeated pattern of input.
- Frequent formative and summative feedback helps instructors understand needed interventions.
- Asynchronous courses require enough substantive interaction not to be confused with correspondence courses, which Cochise College is not authorized by Higher Learning Commission to offer.
