The program has found its niche in the online environment, and has made sure it thrives by providing enough support to faculty and students. Doubletime Education School administrators often think of distance education as an alternative to construction and maintenance of campus buildings but this is only one model of on-line services. Citrus College of Glendora California, has devised a hybrid program, Double Time, which combines campus-based classes with online so as to creatively meet both the time pressures and the place demands of community college students. Double Time is a schedule which allows students to obtain the best of distance and traditional education. Two courses share the same classroom and time period with an alternating biweekly schedule.
Students fulfill the remainder of the course work online.
Ken Guttman, DE Coordinator, describes it as a win-win situation. It's a win for the administration because immediately class space is doubled. The University of Central Florida, in rapidly growing Orlando, offers its own version of Double Time to meet with the tremendous demand for courses. While this hybrid has demonstrated its benefits, Eric Nightingale, Dean, is most proud of the 24-hour a day online tutoring that he instituted at Citrus. An outgrowth of support for online classes, the program has expanded to on-campus course offerings.