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A central decision in online course design: To go synchronous or asynchronous?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2022

Ann-Marie R. Castille*
Affiliation:
Nicholls State University
*
Corresponding author. Email: ann-marie.castille@nicholls.edu

Abstract

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Commentaries
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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