Navigate 2.1.1 Delivery Methods and the Synchronous Vendor Market Quest

I've had a bit of experience in the synchronous classroom as a student working on my Education Specialist degree at UGA.  The program format for the Instructional Design and Development program at UGA is blended so some classes are face to face and some are online and mostly synchronous.  For that program we used Blackboard.  I like that program a lot, probably because I'm most familiar with it.  I do recall some audio issues from time to time and we never had a class meeting where I could actually see the instructor.  After looking at some of the other options it looks like there are a few others I would look into if choosing a program.  I'm partial to Google just because I use it for everything (email, documents, this blog…) so just to keep things all in one place I would think using Google+ Hangouts would be pretty convenient.  I really love free and I really love programs that are housed online rather than software.  That way they can be accessed from anywhere from any computer; that is kind of a key point to online learning anyways, right?  It also seems as though Go To Meeting has great reviews and is user-friendly but it has a capacity of 25 participants so that is likely best suited to business meetings and not education (especially not MOOCS!).  Join.me is another site recommended by my husband for synchronous business meetings.  It's less expensive than Go To Meeting and it's more accessible because there are no downloads involved; great for spur of the moment meetings.