Blended (Hybrid) Teaching

August 4, 2020: Session hosted by Center for Professional Excellence, Curriculum and Instructional Support Center, and Faculty Senate

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."

Faculty Fellow Kathryn Hix focuses on the importance of communication when teaching Hybrid-Blended courses.

Lee McMinn from Curriculum and Instructional Support Center demonstrates an alternative tool available to both faculty and students who need webcams.

Instructor Yolunda Franklin-Richards discusses establishing community in a virtual classroom.

Dr. David Burke shares tips to help you enhance your camera presence.

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.

Amy Daniels walks through the logistics of using Google Meet with students.

Tracy Dragoo from Transitional Studies-Math Department offers advice for teaching real-time online classes.

Director of Online Learning Shannon Creighton shares best practices and troubleshooting tips for Honorlock.

Dept. Head Brian Cranny demonstrates how to use Blackboard Assignment Reminder.

History Professor Shannon O'Bryan discusses the impact of weekly nudges in online classes.

Chef Kristen Grissom explains how to adapt remote learning for hands-on skills.

English Professor Liz Wilfong demonstrates how to use the free online tool Padlet.

Lee McMinn demonstrates how to set up tests in Blackboard.

Michelle Vlaich-Lee from Curriculum & Instructional Support Center explains the Blackboard Ally accessibility tool.

Speech Instructor Rebecca Ferguson provides tips for improving audio quality in online meetings and classes.

Michelle Byrd, Dean of the School of Business and Computer Technology, shares tips for rethinking your syllabus policies and beyond.

Lee McMinn from the Curriculum and Instructional Support Center (CISC) explains how to create an easy opt out link in Blackboard for students.

Whitney Axsom from the Curriculum and Instructional Support Center (CISC) explains how to embed a video into your Blackboard course.

Professor Matt Cazessus from the Behavioral and Social Sciences Department shares advice for facilitating classroom disussion.

An Overview of the Options from the Blog by Jenae Cohn

Foundations for Online Teaching
A guide for finding resources on online instructional design, tools, and technologies from Emory University

Video demos of engineering topics in electrical, structural, materials, chemical, aeronautical, biomedical, and bioengineering