Between these two extremes is a slippery slope, which many of my colleagues realize as they watch all the TV ads for new dot-coms. Ricci Street at its best is not for the students who want to sit in the back of the room, take lecture notes, take a multiple-choice test, and get credentialled. Nor is it best for teachers who want to stand in the front of the room, lecture, give objective tests, and grade students like eggs. In class, the teacher is the center of attention. In class, the learning is the center of attention.
Every student sits at an open Web connection and the teacher stands alongside and behind.
The teacher holds the only clicker and does most of the talking. The teacher is the only one in the room without a clicker. The teacher limits contact with students to classes held at a specified time and place and to office hours convenient to the teacher. The classroom walls are porous and the clock is irrelevant. Few of my colleagues want to move their course materials to the Web.