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Multiple Digital Learning Modes to Optimize Education Delivery

These COVID-19 times have disrupted our lives, our work and our learning to the maximum. It has forced us to find new ways to deliver curriculum, teaching and connect with learners from a distance. For many, remote teaching was just more than firing up a Zoom session to synchronously deliver classroom sessions. However, this was not at all satisfying to many faculty members and students. It left some with a distant feeling that, it was less personal and less engaged than they had felt in the prior face-to-face model.  Fortunately, there are many more online options than merely turning on the camera. For the past quarter century, online learning has been mostly asynchronous -- engaging students in print materials, short video clips and discussion boards. This “traditional” approach affords the greatest student flexibility -- anytime and anywhere. It is relatively low bandwidth while still allowing engagement between and among the students and instructor in the discussion board. Working