DocumentCode :
2828058
Title :
Online Synchronous Instruction: Challenges and Solutions
Author :
Leo, Tommaso ; Manganello, Flavio ; Pennacchietti, Martina ; Pistoia, Antonio ; Kinshuk ; Chen, Niang-Shin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Manage. & Autom. Eng., Univ. Politec. delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
fYear :
2009
fDate :
15-17 July 2009
Firstpage :
489
Lastpage :
491
Abstract :
Most of the online courses nowadays are offered mainly in asynchronous mode, enabling students with the freedom of time and distance. Nonetheless, the drop-out rate for online courses is high. With online synchronous instruction students have both freedom of distance and punctuality of regular progress and the drop-out rate is found to be greatly reduced. However, there is a lack of online synchronous teaching pedagogies in the literature for teachers. This study aims to identify major issues that need to be considered in online synchronous instruction environments using observations of real online synchronous instruction in a physical setup. This paper then recommends some pedagogical guidelines for effective online synchronous teaching.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; educational courses; teaching; asynchronous mode; drop-out rate; online courses; online synchronous instruction student; online synchronous teaching pedagogies; Automation; Computer science; Conference management; Education; Educational activities; Engineering management; Guidelines; Online Communities/Technical Collaboration; Technology management; Videoconference;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2009. ICALT 2009. Ninth IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Riga
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3711-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3711-5
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2009.148
Filename :
5194284
Link To Document :
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