This shows how technology is introduced into learning organizations, acting as the new medium between the source and the receiver. The electronic grapevine, or the grouping of different electronic mediums, connects organizational members in many different ways. One example is how most modern phones have the ability to check e-mail.  This creates an electronic grapevine from the office to the home, since e-mail can be available ion many devices. Some might say that this is a positive innovation, because the nature of a fast-moving twenty-first-century environment, while another might say that with this grapevine, there is never escape from work, which can be detrimental.

In learning organizations, such as schools, the advancement of technological communication, from online textbooks, to quick access of online journal articles, and the use of computerized technology has and will continue to be present. One example of teaching and learning that has used the characteristics of both broadcast media and communicative media transmission is the use of the hybrid classroom. Hybrid classrooms, as described by Penn State University, is a transmission approach to delivering course content either separately or with face-face and online connections[10]. The advantages to hybrid classrooms, or hybrid learning, are that it reduces the seat time of individuals, and students can engage in authentic and collaborative learning experiences[10]. In addition, it accommodates the hours of adult learners, allowing more flexibility with time. On the contrary, hybrid teaching can use a lot more resources than the traditional face-to-face method, and still be less integrative, depending on class size.  However, the fact that an individual can choose to experience the class traditionally through a face-to-face method, or with divergence through an online method is completely up to the students learning and their objectives toward learning.

Regardless of the media or medium, it must be beneficial to all learners, and help foster learning effectively. Depending on the type of study, both lecture and online learning may not be the best forms of communication transmission. For example, most high school music classes generally have brief lecturing and hardly any online component. Predominantly, music classes are experiential and authentic, by working through sheet music and playing the instrument collaboratively with others in the class. Leaders must find the most effective way to harness the learning experience, and decide if the hybrid method will deliver learning effectively.

Activity: Elephant and the Blind Men

• Read the poem, “Elephant and the Blind Men” at https://www.jainworld.com/literature/story25.htm 
• Answer the questions below.
• Consider working with a partner or in a group.