Hi Tina,
Yes from my experiences teaching online and in the classroom and also being a student online and in the classroom there are a plethora of lines that have been crossed in the online environment. If you are taking courses in an academic setting and learning online can be an advantage. My suggested opinions from talking to in-class and online instructors is that colleges and universities will in the future most likely go all online. Why not now? For example, just like print newspapers are not all automatically online and still has print versions for their customers. Instructors are almost ready to retire and are unaware of using online technology to teach still experience a classroom learning environment. Ready to retire instructors would be considered keeping in-class learning and referring to online environment of a crossed line. How can we resolve this? Colleges and universities can aide their instructors on faculty training and development in teaching online courses. Most faculty ready to retire will resist and rebel to this type of learning online. This is a huge debacle for ready to retire instructors to start in their life now. In the long run online learning will have a huge advantage for students to learn online. For example, when an instructor in the classroom communicates to students to read the chapter before hand and come in for an in-class discussion does not really occur and is not effective. Students will not all read the chapter before hand for class. If an instructor is teaching online and communicates to students in a discussion board they would have to read the chapter before hand in order to post an intelligent discussion posting to their peers and instructor. So I guess the real answer to this time will tell.