This book is a product of a dissertation project that was completed in December
2006. This project investigated teachers' experiences in relation to teaching and learning
using the hybrid-context instructional model. The dissertation itself has been noted as one
of the best in providing practical tips for teachers in this area. The study methodology is
included as appendix B. To answer the questions raised during the interviews, the findings
of the study have been supplemented and supported with extensive literature review of
empirical studies to provide theoretical and practical solutions. The literature review draws
from total Internet, blended, and hybrid instruction studies. The literature on the total
Internet instruction has relevance in that the Internet piece of the hybrid-context course shares the same course management
systems and requires the same approaches and principles as do total Internet instruction. The book discusses the conceptual
and descriptive presentations of the hybrid-context model, media, applicable teaching philosophies; strategies best
accomplished in each medium; various ways of linking the face-to-face and the Internet activities; the why and how the
study participants transitioned into teaching hybrid-context courses, teachers' expectations, etc. The discussion on 'labor of
love' is the core of this book as the discussion has captured the surprises the study participants met in a way that is not
reflected in the current literature. Built into this discussion are the amounts of things teachers had to learn in order to
function well as hybrid-context model teachers. The contents of this book will aide teachers who teach in any way using the
Internet. Therefore, any establishment/individual using the Internet for teaching and
learning will benefit from the contents of this book. Also, the administrators will find
this book a selling point to encourage more participation in the adoption of the
hybrid-context instructional model as well as realizing what the teachers would need
to successfully implement this phenomenon.