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The following sentence is an example of what? Virtual learning should be asynchronous, meaning that students learn at their own pace at the time of their choosing.

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The following sentence is an example of what? One benefit of asynchronous learning is that it helps to address the needs of students who do not have consistent access to the Internet and/or technological connectivity.

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The following sentence is an example of what? In Monongalia county in WV, all students have had one-to-one technology access with Chromebooks for the past several years.

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The following sentence is an example of what? A 2018 study by the Pew Research Center found that 17% of teenagers reported that they often or sometimes were not able to complete homework because of lack of access to the Internet.

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The following sentence is an example of what? The disparity in Internet access widens when considering students from low-income households.

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The following sentence is an example of what? One student who lives in a low-income household in rural WV reported their Internet at home only worked on occasion. The infrastructure for Internet access in that part of the state is limited by geography, and the student said that, "I spend way more time trying to get online than I do actually doing the assignments. It gets frustrating."

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The following sentence is an example of what? According to Jorgensen, an instructional specialist at the University of Albany, asynchronous learning can provide a model of learning that is convenient for students' schedules.

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The following sentence is an example of what? In one study, researchers monitored the experience of several teenagers, some who had consistent access to technology, some who had inconsistent access to technology, and some who had little or no access to technology. Regardless of access to technology, the researchers found that the teenagers reported a preference for asynchronous learning.

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The following sentence is an example of what? Regardless of preference for learning models, to many students synchronous learning can seem like fitting a square peg into a round hole. The model doesn't seem to fit a changing educational landscape.

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The following sentence is an example of what? Yet according to a paper published by Guo in Physics Education (2020), students who did not attend synchronous sessions found the content to be much more difficult to understand than those who attended synchronously.

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