Mary Nestor, Millie Tullis and James Butler write that a recent opinion essay presented a distorted view of the possibilities of asynchronous course design. Many institutions now offer effective ...

Instant-messaging tools like Slack have become the primary way to collaborate in real time. These tools made remote work possible but have also contributed to burnout and mental-health issues. Some ...

The benefit of “remote work” is that it should enable greater freedom and flexibility — yet for many, it’s led to be even more inundated with communications, back-to-back meetings and extended working ...

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 ...

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Legacy web applications are synchronous in nature. The user interacts with the web interface presented in the browser, the browser makes requests back to the server based on that user interaction, and ...

Asynchronous code (async code) says: go do something while I do other things, then let me know what happened when the results are ready. Also known as concurrency, async is important in a variety of ...