Technology can play a useful role without classes going fully online:
http://www.joannejacobs.com/2013/02/study-hybrid-class-works-for-college-students/Study: Hybrid class works for college students
by Joanne Jacobs
College statistics students in a hybrid class — online instruction plus a one-hour face-to-face session — performed slightly better than the control group and spent 1.7 fewer hours per week on the course, write William G. Bowen, Matthew M. Chingos, Kelly A. Lack and Thomas I. Nygren in Education Next.
“The effect of the hybrid-format course did not vary when controlling for race/ethnicity, gender, parental education, primary language spoken, score at the standardized pretest, hours worked for pay, or college GPA,” the authors report.
