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Online? Or classroom? Or both? Your responses are solicited. For practitioners (degrees in hand), a further question is whether to take courses via an established physical plant where layers of administrators pocket the majority of the registration fee or an online site where the instructors get at least 70% of the course fee. Online only offers an advantage (and it is a deal-breaker) if the course participant can interact with the instructor. Can you ask questions? Ask for clarification? If not, the course participant might just as well be sitting in the back-up classroom of a mega university watching the instructor via the telly. Full disclosure: The proposer of this topic for discussion, author of “A-Z of Error-Free Research,” is an instructor at http://statcourse.com and his courses have been online and interactive for the past eight years. Phillip Good You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.