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Monday, July 15, 2002
http://www.webct.com/OTL/ViewContent?contentID=2339346 Synchronous vs. Asynchronous: Some Thoughts Murray Goldberg I am going to apologize in advance for this installment of my column. The reason I am going to apologize is that I am going to ask for more answers than I am going to provide. Maybe that has always been the case with my columns, I don't know, but in this case it seems especially apparent. The topic at hand in synchronous vs. asynchronous communication. In speaking with thousands of educators all over the world, as I have the privilege of having done and continue to do, I am always a little surprised when people speak of asynchronous communication as the necessary, but vastly inferior alternative to synchronous communication. Keep in mind, not everyone tells me this, but enough do that it caught my attention. It is their view that once the infrastructure and software for high quality synchronous communication is ubiquitous, asynchronous communication will go away. The only reason we use it now is because it is cheap and plentiful, and the bandwidth, software and equipment needed for synchronous is not quite there yet. I couldn't disagree more....
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