Hybrid Learning: The Perils and Promise of Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education

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Hybrid Learning: The Perils and Promise of Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education. Snart JA. Santa Barbara, CA, Praeger, 2010, hardcover, 179 pp, $34.95.

The author of this text, Hybrid Learning: The Perils and Promise of Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education, challenges us as readers (and fellow educators) to question the role of technology in our higher education classrooms. In the self-titled Chapter 1, Early Resistant Adopter of Technology, Snart suggests that we have as much to learn about the "perils and promise" of hybrid or blended learning from technology enthusiasts as we do from the technology skeptics. He encourages …