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 ...

Academics are agonising over the wrong elements of online education. They should be thinking about active versus passive learning, says Simon Chesterman Over the course of the pandemic, educators – ...

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 ...

Like the prefix suggests, a synchronous connection occurs when the both sender and receiver of a data connection are synchronised from a timing perspective so there is a constant flow of data ...

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 ...

Like the prefix suggests, a synchronous connection occurs when the both sender and receiver of a data connection are synchronised from a timing perspective so there is a constant flow of data ...