As a Instructor in a Technical school I think the Online programs that we have set in place at other campuses is going to be the thing of the future. Looking at other discussions its hard to answer some of the question our give ideas, when the program we roled out is totally different then what I have seen in the forum discussion's. I beleive that the student should be able to gain access to the materials that he or she is studying, that there is a group that they can turn to for help when in need, as far as online discussion with the Instructor, well thats were we are different, First the student does 2 days of online training and testing then 3 days of lab work with the Instructor, so if building a syllabus for this course. Would you build it on the 2 days of online training or the whole 5 days.