The online classroom broadens the face-to-face classroom and presents almost endless opportunities for enhancing and supplementing traditional classroom experiences. Here at Babson a few of the ways we are implementing the online classroom include:

• Fully online classes, in which a professor is online in one location and the students are online in a different location accessing the class via the internet



• Simultaneous class sessions, in which a professor and part of the class are on campus in a face-to-face setting and the rest of the class is online accessing class via the internet



• A professor-led class that is taught using asynchronous threaded discussion technology either at a designated day and time or over a period of time (in both situations students and the professor are not in the same location)



• Face-to-face classes that include guest speakers or co-faculty who are online accessing the class via the internet

The technologies Babson uses to support the online classroom are Elluminate for synchronous and simultaneous access and Blackboard's discussion board for threaded discussions.