Isa arrives from Conference Center hammy arrives. Satoru has disconnected. The housekeeper arrives to remove Satoru. Chat is a tool that we talk about as one means to enhance learning in an online course. They can communicate either asynchronously or synchronously via chat to do this project.
Most groups use a combination.
Rachelle D beams in. Some teams use chat just to try it out, others will conduct the project entirely via the asynchronous conference where they have a private conference area set up for this purpose. In our paper we describe many other ways chat can be incorporated into an online course. They work together for several weeks and don't believe there is any urgency, so asynchronous communication works fine. Sometimes our participants are spread out over different time zones, so they have to discussion when they will chat and how that will effect their schedules.