The synchronous experience is quite close to what you would experience in a classroom. Typically, almost immediately for a text, audio, or video chat with Skype. Virtual Classroom Performance Classroom Performance       Quinn, C. (2009). Populating the LearnScape: e?Learning as  Strategy.  In M. Allen, Ed. Michael Allen’s e­Learning Annual  2009.  Pfeiffer: San Francisco.    About Michael Allen's 2009 e­Learning Annual:  Alarming. Disquieting. Insightful. Constructive. Brazen. No rehash of the same old principles and  perspectives here. Michael Allen's Annuals probe and question common practices in search of solid  guidance for success with e?learning, and this edition is no exception!  As organizations universally turn to e?learning to reduce costs and meet their learning and  performance needs, they make many regrettable mistakes—mistakes that can be avoided but rarely  are because common sense leads to them. The 2009 Annual once again provides an important  collection of the most current insights and best practices that will help both educators and  workplace learning leaders create, purchase, and apply quality e?learning programs more  effectively. It provides a wealth of applicable examples and guidance for all persons contemplating  e?learning, from the student to the professional. It frankly and objectively presents lessons learned  and the critical steps to success.  Authors include Jay Cross, Karl Kapp, Lance Dublin, Ruth Clark, Bob Mosher, Betty Collis, and more.        While accurate for content, the formatting of the text and images of this chapter has minor revisions,  and is paginated slightly differently than in the book.  [link]

No, I don't mean that we're unable to communicate (we mostly use Skype) or that we're lost for words (chance would be a fine thing), just that we can't find the right words. and we're happy with the term for an online lecture/presentation (a webinar of course), but we're bamboozled when it comes to live online learning. I've recently been reading through all the literature I can fins on the topic, and this has highlighted just how many terms we have to cover this seemingly simple idea: The virtual classroom (was the established term, at least in the UK, but by no means universal;

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