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In our opinion, one of the best features of online education is its convenience: You get to work when it works for you. Say you’re a supervisor assigned to the third shift and you work from 11 P.m. to 7 A.m. You may be able to squeeze in a morning class, but chances are, your biorhythms put you in a groggy state after work. You could sleep a little and then wake up and take a night class before your shift, but then when will you do your homework? And, what about tomorrow night when your son has a Little League game? Wouldn’t it be great to work your course around your schedule? In many cases, online learning can accommodate your personal schedule. In the following sections, we define two types of timing for online courses: asynchronous learning and real-time (synchronous) learning.