Online or Face-to-Face: A Survey of Student Preferences
http://www.english.mnsu.edu/stc/archives/2003/03Nov/Lindberg.htm

Lindberg, Martha
Techniques
2003

Abstract:

Although COMS 101 is officially a face-to-face course, I duplicate so much of the course online that it is more like a hybrid course. A hybrid course is between a traditional lecture course and a completely online course in terms of the percentage of class time conducted online. Theoretically, my students learn in our scheduled lectures, but in reality, about one-third of the class requirements are accomplished with little or no instruction from an in-person teacher. This is not so much due to the online content, but instead to the requirement of learning software applications without benefit of a scheduled lab session.