When students take their first online class they usually don't know what to expect.  It can come as quite a surprise to find out that learning at a distance isn't all that different from learning on campus.  That's because faculty tend to choose from the same basic menu options -- lectures, readings, discussion, homework, papers, and exams -- when designing their courses, regardless of whether they'll be teaching from campus or from the cloud, and whether the content will be delivered live, pre-recorded, or some combination of the two. 

In this Summer Shorts episode, Kieran thinks the new academic year seems like an opportune time to ask… are online, asynchronous, and hybrid really strange new teaching strategies, or are we simply using new terminology to describe familiar techniques?

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