The image used in this post is of a small group of students sitting in a room together, (seemingly) energetically talking about the issues at hand. This is an example of synchronous discussion—the ...

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If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make ...

Synchronous communication relies on two parties being available at exactly the same time. Synchronous communication methods, such as meetings, telephone or Zoom calls, must be arranged. Both parties ...

CEO & Founder of Rock.so. Kenzo writes about the future of work, distributed teams, and how you can enable anyone to work from anywhere. Have you ever imagined what it would be like to start your ...

Synchronous vs asynchronous replication: How do they differ with regard to the order of events during data writes? When comparing synchronous vs asynchronous replication, let’s take a scenario where a ...

There were lots of reasons for professors to avoid synchronous instruction at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Students are scattered across different times zones, their access to computers ...