The Chronicle of Higher Education is sponsoring an online discussion

this week about the emergence of "hybrid" teaching, which seeks to blend

distance education and traditional, classroom-based instruction.

If you wish to join the discussion, please go to The Chronicle's Web

site at http://chronicle.com/colloquy/

These courses and programs involve some face-to-face interaction, but they also make

use of distance education for some courses and lectures. While the

hybrid programs use the best of classroom and online education, they

also challenge the assumptions held by proponents of both types of

education by suggesting that either form, alone, may not be sufficient.

How valuable are the emerging hybrid programs that blend distance

education and classroom learning? What does this new type of education

say about distance education and classroom-based instruction?