Invitations   Goals/Participants  Definitions/Issues  Tools/Media
Principles/Structure  Practices/Techniques  Implications/Next Steps

WORKING DRAFT
Definitions, Resources, Context"

Online VS.  Face-to-Face (Never the Same)

• Face-to-face, distance, asynchronous:  What are significant differences?
• Different in what ways?  Along what dimensions?  Advantages/disadvantages of each? 
• Which roles/functions fundamental to traditional education in higher ed (e.g., library, counseling, …) translate well/poorly from face-to-face to online?  Which versions of these roles/functions currently available need to be improved online? 

• Hybrid or Blended Courses
  (Some students meet face-to-face some of the time;  some students interact synchronously at a distance some of the time.)
• Hybrid or Blended Programs
  (Students take some courses in which the only synchronous sessions are face-to-face; and they take some course in which the only synchronous sessions are at a distance - not face-to-face.)
• Accelerating Change – Too Many New Options Too Fast
       Just beginning to learn, understand new options, new media, new dimensions for communication and instruction
       Can this set of forces provide the impetus for developing better ways to use face-to-face opportunities?