Synchronous technologies, particularly interactive video conferencing (IVC), are becoming common modes of teaching and delivering college courses. The increasing popularity of IVC in the U.S. and abroad calls for more pedagogically effective practices for instructors using this technology. This volume focuses on innovative and proven approaches to IVC teaching in a variety of disciplines: English, history, biology, chemistry, geology, engineering, social work, and elementary and special education. Contributors hail from a pioneering university at the forefront of distance education and understand the practice and potential of IVC teaching at the highest levels. Chapters outline the challenges and benefits of IVC teaching from pedagogical, technical, and administrative perspectives Chapters included in the book: (1) Taking the Long View: The Value of IVC Teaching in Distance Education; (2) Distance as Substance: Place-Based Studies for Place-Bound Students (Nathan Straight); (3) Interactive Video Conferencing versus the Face-to-Face Biology Classroom: Understanding Student Attitudes and Behaviors (Thayne Sweeten); (4) "Drive-By English": Teaching College Writing to High School Seniors via IVC (Alan Blackstock and Virginia Norris Exton); (5) Flip-Teaching College Chemistry in Broadcast Classrooms (Michael A. Christiansen); (6) Proven Strategies for Blended Learning: Case Studies from Distance Teaching in History (Clayton D. Brown); (7) Course Delivery Methods for Effective Distance Science Education: A Case Study of Taking an Introductory Geology Class Online (Benjamin Burger); (8) Interdisciplinary Team Instruction in a Distance-Delivered First-Year Engineering Course (Angela Minichiello, Tracy Blake, Wade H. Goodridge, and David Sam); (9) Practical Strategies for Team Teaching in the Distance Education (IVC) Context (Susan Cutler Egbert and Sean Camp); (10) Distance Field Education in Social Work: Development, Delivery, and Evaluation (Susan Cutler Egbert, Diane Calloway-Graham, and Derrik Tollefson); (11) Growing Teachers in the Field: A Distance-Delivered Teacher Education Program (Laura S. Foley); (12) If You Can't Make It to the Meeting, Send Your Avatar: Teaching Distance-Learning Students to Collaborate in a Multi-User Virtual Environment (Nancy Glomb, Lee L. Mason, and Peter Blair); and (13) The Evolution of Distance Education at Utah State University (John D. Barton, Elisa Taylor, and Robert W. Wagner).