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Hi Jennifer, I think that I’m less concerned about the asynchronous nature of my online classes, mainly owing to temporal circumstances. I live in Japan and thus am ten time zones away from most of my classmates, so I often end up as the odd man out on real-time discussions. This term my W505 instructor has already hosted two discussions via AOL AIM but I’ve missed both of them; while the Sunday evening Indiana time start was convenient for everyone else, I was busy at work on a Monday morning in Japan. I definitely agree with you that online learning requires a motivated learner. There’s kind of an unreality to the experience; I mean, all you have to do is stop doing the work and no one is the wiser. If you quit going to a physical classroom it seems like a much more “real” act than just stopping logging onto a website. Ken