Explores asynchronous communication perspectives and experiences of undergraduate students in an online course. Interviews with 22 preservice teachers, student-to-instructor email transcripts, asynchronous discussion transcripts, and two independent reviewers' reviews of the asynchronous discussions were used to collect and analyze the data. Results have implications for design of asynchronous communication, and interaction between student and instructor, student and student, and student and content. (Author/AEF)