Distance learning has the potential to enhance individual competency and military unit readiness by delivering learning where needed and when needed. However, this requires the distance learning systems to be highly accessible. Many potential classrooms, learners and organizations, especially those in the Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, don't have direct access to the Information Superhighway. Instead, they live down the equivalent of digital dirt roads. The proliferation of low cost personal computers capable of rendering high quality graphics, adoption of international standards for multimedia conferencing, ubiquity of Internet access and universal telephone service have created the opportunity to deliver scaleable, low cost multimedia instruction down the digital dirt roads with the hybrid audiographics approach. This approach delivers high quality audio over telephone lines and data interaction over packet switched Internet connections, thus distributing the transmission load between two highly accessible but limited bandwidth media. This paper explores the need for hybrid audiographics and describes a study comparing the performance of groups of Reserve Component soldiers taking an introductory course on Information Operations via the following modes: (1) hybrid audiographics, (2) hybrid audiographics with video of instructor and (3) traditional face to face classroom. The study results suggest there is no difference in student learning performance between the hybrid audiographics mode of instruction and the traditional classroom for the Information Operations course. The results also suggest video of the instructor had no effect on learning performance as measured by self assessment or actual test grades. Just as important, the typical transmission costs associated with delivering hybrid audiographics were calculated as approximately 4% of the cost of two-way full motion video using Defense Information System Agency services.