The study revealed that instructors of online developmental education are well-trained in online technologies, and while they are concerned about the potential lack of institutional supports and student pre-requisite knowledge for online courses, they proactively seek out mechanisms to overcome these obstacles. Furthermore, although instructors of online developmental education expressed concern about whether their students possessed the necessary pre-requisite skills to succeed in online courses, they placed less emphasis on the importance of face-to-face communication than their counterparts who teach in face-to-face formats only. Instead, they appeared to seek out or instill mechanisms to overcome the lack of face-to-face contact, including sending personalized, frequent emails of encouragement to students, creating open, threat-free bulletin board environments, and supplementing online content with instructor-voice recordings.