Secondary outcome – students’ experience
Semi-structured interviews were conducted with each student to investigate students’ experience of attending asynchronous or synchronous lectures. The interviews were performed online, by videoconferencing, and they were conducted only with the interviewee. GDB and LD produced and transcribed an audio-visual recording of each interview verbatim. Questions were asked about the feelings, emotions and impressions that the students have experienced in participating in the synchronous and asynchronous lessons.The interview guide (Supplementary Material The semi-structured interviews were performed by GDB and LD and lasted approximately 15 min each. GDB performed the interviews with the students who participated in the asynchronous course, whereas LD performed the interviews with those who participated in the synchronous course. Participants were aware of their professional background and knew GDB and LD as lecturers.