Your Ideas to Replace ‘Synchronous’

Bob Ubell started a conversation about the language we use to describe the different aspects of online learning.

His recommendation was to stop using “synchronous” and shift to saying “online” when “referring to real-time teaching in a classroom or virtually.”

I pushed back, floating “live.”

You had much better ideas.

Some suggestions from colleagues, shared over Twitter and through email:

• Concurrent
• Virtual
• Real-time
• Livestream
• Remote live
• Sync
• Same time
• Online2G (as in “together”)
• Remote live
• C-to-C, for camera to camera
• Live classes
• Remote instruction
• Online live
• Live online
• RTT—real-time technology
• Live sessions
• Direct (with asynchronous being “mediated”)
• Live without the drive (as in drive to campus)
• Instructor-paced
• Successive
• Contemporaneous
• Simultaneous
• Synchronized
• Sequential
• Class-a-thon
• Open-mic
• Web conferencing
• Holo-meeting (as in the holodeck from Star Trek)
• High-maintenance, ’cause it's so much work and you never know what’s going to go wrong next.

Any missing?

Any consensus?