Can Online Teaching Improve Face to Face Instruction? - Michael L. Rodgers and Mary Harriet Talbut, Tomorrow's Professor

In general, online courses require greater planning, more extensive resources, more formalized communication, and more detailed organization than do face to face courses. But, the work that goes into creating an online course, and the insights forthcoming from comparison of online and face to face versions of the course, can make the face to face course better in many ways. http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/cgi-bin/tomprof/enewsletter.php