Word: hybridize
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...investigate distance learning, University President Lawrence H. Summers created a committee composed of professors from Harvard’s various schools. Several committee members recommended the wording change to allow hybrid programs, which combine distance learning with learning on campus and present some interesting and promising possibilities. These programs often attract mid-career professionals, many of whom already have advanced degrees, and it makes sense not to force some professional students to spend an entire year on campus. As an example, University Provost Stephen E. Hyman pointed to the health care management program at the School of Public Health, which...
...leading university, Harvard must continue to be very protective of its name and academics. The University should move cautiously when creating and expanding existing programs into the hybrid format in order to guarantee that all these programs are held to the same intellectual rigor and high standards of current on-campus programs. Fortunately, accompanying this recent change, the University has indicated its intention to move cautiously when expanding distance learning...
...There are some good ideas for hybrid programs that several of the faculties have that make a lot of sense,” said David C. Lamberth, the Divinity School’s associate dean for academic affairs...
Committee members said that the most likely innovations will come in the form of hybrid degree programs, which have both distance-learning and on-campus components...
...can’t support middle schools or a hybrid plan,” Turkel said. “I don’t believe that we have large community support behind...