{"id":14733,"date":"2020-09-18T12:54:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T18:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=14733"},"modified":"2020-09-18T12:54:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T18:54:07","slug":"sean-michael-morris-interviewed-by-inside-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2020\/09\/18\/sean-michael-morris-interviewed-by-inside-higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Michael Morris interviewed by Inside Higher Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Don&#8217;t dismiss asynchronous learning, experts say. Improve it.<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Most instruction at community colleges remains remote this semester as the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on.<\/p>\n<p>Some are concerned that remote instruction will further widen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2013\/02\/25\/study-finds-some-groups-fare-worse-others-online-courses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">equity gaps<\/a>\u00a0among students.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ccrc.tc.columbia.edu\/media\/k2\/attachments\/adaptability-to-online-learning.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Previous research<\/a>\u00a0shows that students who take courses online are less likely to persist than their peers who take courses face-to-face, and underrepresented minority students have lower performance than other groups, like Asian American students, in online courses.<\/p>\n<p>But experts in online learning argue that it&#8217;s the way a course is designed, not whether it&#8217;s synchronous, that determines whether a student will succeed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For community college students in particular, because they\u2019re usually nontraditional students, asynchronous learning is really useful,&#8221; said Sean Morris, senior instructor of learning design and technology at the University of Colorado at Denver and director of the Digital Pedagogy Lab. &#8220;In our current situation, asynchronous learning is the way to go.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2020\/09\/16\/dont-dismiss-asynchronous-learning-experts-say-improve-it\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t dismiss asynchronous learning, experts say. Improve it. Most instruction at community colleges remains remote this semester as the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on. Some are concerned that remote instruction will further widen\u00a0equity gaps\u00a0among students.\u00a0Previous research\u00a0shows that students who take courses online are less likely to persist than their peers who take courses face-to-face, and underrepresented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-house","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}