Abstract
This article outlines the evolution of a unique distance education program that began as a hybrid—combining face-to-face instruction with asynchronous online teaching—and evolved to become an innovative combination of synchronous education using live streaming video, audio, and chat over the Internet, blended with asynchronous online discussions and group activities, to reach students who live and work in Taiwan. We discuss the reasons why the program changed its format, how we went about finding technological solutions to the problems faced by the program administrators in an effort to keep students in the program, and, most importantly, how we used technology to meet the needs of all participants. This article lists the strengths and weaknesses of using streaming media in distance education, provides instructor and student feedback, and looks at instructional design and technological issues discovered through the process of blending synchronous and asynchronous modalities in the delivery of online graduate distance education courses.
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