Virtual education: a view from the trenches

We describe our experience in teaching a "partially virtual" course in which the course is delivered partly in a traditional classroom setting and partly online. We discuss both the successful aspects of our experience and the obstacles that we faced. The greatest challenge has been to mesh emerging pedagogies of active learning with newly available technologies.

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