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Bob Ubell started a conversation about the language we use to describe the different aspects of online learning.
His recommendation was to stop using “synchronous” and shift to saying “online” when “referring to real-time teaching in a classroom or virtually.”
I pushed back, floating “live.”
You had much better ideas.
Some suggestions from colleagues, shared over Twitter and through email:
- Concurrent
- Virtual
- Real-time
- Livestream
- Remote live
- Sync
- Same time
- Online2G (as in “together”)
- Remote live
- C-to-C, for camera to camera
- Live classes
- Remote instruction
- Online live
- Live online
- RTT—real-time technology
- Live sessions
- Direct (with asynchronous being “mediated”)
- Live without the drive (as in drive to campus)
- Instructor-paced
- Successive
- Contemporaneous
- Simultaneous
- Synchronized
- Sequential
- Class-a-thon
- Open-mic
- Web conferencing
- Holo-meeting (as in the holodeck from Star Trek)
- High-maintenance, ’cause it's so much work and you never know what’s going to go wrong next.
Any missing?
Any consensus?