Online learning is not a clack-and-go process for instructors. Many assume that online learning is done for convenience of the learner and to some extent it is. That tends to be the case when it comes to asynchronous instruction where work is largely turned in by a post and learning is done independently. with the rise of widespread broadband connections it is becoming more an more popular for online learning to by synchronous and in real time. The instructor and students are in active discourse during a meeting time but in separate locations. The downfall of this being that students can easily go off do what they want while instruction is occurring. The key to combating this is to have synchronous instruction that is engaging and requires active participation by the learners.
