Types of Online Courses

	Synchronous	Collaborative Asynchronous	Self-Paced Asynchronous	Blended/Hybrid
Description:	Students and instructors are present at the same time for instruction All course content is delivered online A cohort of students start and end the course on predetermined dates Facilitators regularly engage with students	Students and instructors are not present at the same time for instruction All course content is delivered online A cohort of students start and end the course on predetermined dates Facilitators regularly engage with students	Students are not present at the same time for instruction All course content is delivered online Students start and end the course at varying dates Facilitator engagement with students is minimal to nonexistant	Course is delivered both face-to-face and online Number of face-to-face meetings is typically less than a traditional in-person course
Possible Online Features:	Videos and animations	Videos and animations	Videos and animations	Videos and animations
	Interactive Widgets	Interactive Widgets	Interactive Widgets	Interactive Widgets
	Moderated discussions	Moderated discussions	Un-moderated discussions	Moderated discussions
	Assessments	Assessments	Assessments
	Virtual facilitation	Virtual facilitation		Virtual and in-person facilitation
	Video/web conferencing

Synchronous