“Hybrid”: an educational program or course that includes both face-to-face and Distance Education. Also known by the name “blended” and, sometimes, other terms. [Jun 1, 2019]
By Jose Antonio Bowen, former president of Goucher College
"Here is a proposal to abandon the synchronous (especially repeated) lecture (both large and small) and reallocate time to smaller groups of more engaged active learning."
By Kevin Kelly, online-teaching expert and lecturer in education at San Francisco State University
"a closer look at HyFlex along with its pros and cons"
An open-source book by Brian J. Beatty
"This book provides readers with strategies, methods, and case stories related to Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex) course design so that they (you!) may make informed and thoughtful decisions about using it themselves and begin their own HyFlex course (re)design journey."
By Derek Bruff, director of the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University
"If I’m standing at the front of the classroom with half or a third of my students in the room with me, but sitting six feet apart from each other and wearing masks, while the rest of my students are joining class by videoconference, what strategies might I employ to engage all of my students in meaningful learning?
I’m going to try to outline some options here in this blog post, drawing on ideas and resources from across the higher education community."
By Dan Arnold, e-LIS and Christina Moore, CETL from Oakland University
"Part of the Learning Design Workshop Series: Strategic Instruction Face-to-Face and Online"
"The Blended Learning Toolkit was prepared by the University of Central Florida (UCF) and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) with funding from the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). It is provided as an open educational resource under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license."
“Hybrid Pedagogy is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles that combine personal experience, current conversations, and theoretical foundations. The journal also hosts a podcast, HybridPod, which presents interviews with educators about teaching and learning in a digital age. It also hosts multi-day institutes across the country, as well as online courses."
Amy Daigle shares some insight into how she used Blackboard Collaborate creatively to give students a virtual orientation experience that closely models what they would receive in a face-to-face orientation.
In this episode, Angela Brown, from Supply Chain Management, shares a technique that she uses with her students that she has found to be effective, informative, and fun for all!
Michelle Vlaich-Lee from Curriculum and Instructional Support Center explains the new "Start Here" module which will be in each Blackboard Ultra course.
Whitney Axsom from Curriculum and Instructional Support Center shares more information about Concourse Syllabus and how the tool integrates with Blackboard Ultra.
Lisa Branham, faculty member from the Administrative Office Technology Department, provides details about using Announcements and Course Messages for student engagement in Blackboard Ultra.
In this episode, Lee McMinn, from the Curriculum and Instructions Support Center (CISC), provides an overview of the January updates in Blackboard Ultra and gives a sneak peak into what is coming in February.
In episode fifteen, Lee McMinn, from the Curriculum and Instructions Support Center (CISC), provides an overview of the February 2023 updates in Blackboard Ultra and gives a sneak peak at what is coming in March 2023.
Lee McMinn, from the Curriculum and Instructional Support Center (CISC), provides an overview of the April 2023 updates made in Blackboard Ultra and gives a sneak peak at what is coming in May 2023.
In episode eighteen, Lee McMinn and Rebecca Roth, from the Curriculum and Instructional Support Center (CISC), provide an overview of the May 2023 updates made in Blackboard Ultra and gives a sneak peak at what is coming in June 2023.
Shannon Creighton, Director of Online Learning and the Curriculum and Instructional Support Center (CISC), introduces what Blackboard has developed for both students and faculty to easily access Blackboard on our phones.
In this episode, Jamie Roughton, an instructor from the Behavioral and Social Sciences Department, shares a tip that will make grading assignments in Blackboard much easier (and will keep you from having to type the same comment over and over again).
In this episode, April Akins and Melissa Dukes, instructional designers in the Curriculum and Instructional Support Center (CISC), share some insights into developing effective learning objectives for your courses.
