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.

Dr. Bonnie Smith focuses on two things faculty can do to create an inclusive classroom environment.

Speech Communication Professor Bobbi Lee provides three aspects to support students on the spectrum in the classroom.

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!

Accounting Instructor Kimberly Young offers a new approach to test review.

Director of Online Learning Shannon Creighton talks about the reasons for and benefits of the college's switch to Blackboard Ultra.

Director of Online Learning Shannon Creighton returns to walk through the use of module format in Blackboard Ultra.

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.

Lauren Davis, psychology instructor from the Behavioral and Social Sciences Department, shares tools for student engagement in Blackboard Ultra.

Lee McMinn from Curriculum and Instructional Support Center explains options for adding content in Blackboard Ultra.

Lee McMinn from Curriculum and Instructional Support Center returns to introduce assessments in Blackboard Ultra.

Lee McMinn from Curriculum and Instructional Support Center continues with the teaching series to explain the Gradebook in Blackboard Ultra.

Lee McMinn from Curriculum and Instructional Support Center offers an additional session in the series to explain using Zoom in Blackboard Ultra.

GTC Blackboard Administrator Lee McMinn highlights the latest Blackboard Ultra updates.

Lee McMinn from Curriculum and Instructions Support Center provides an overview of the November updates made in Blackboard Ultra.

Lee McMinn from Curriculum and Instructions Support Center (CISC) provides an overview of the December updates made 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.

Director of Online Learning Shannon Creighton demonstrates how to set up Proctorio using Blackboard Ultra for proctored testing in online classes.

Director of Online Learning Shannon Creighton explains how to use the Proctorio Gradebook.

Director of Online Learning Shannon Creighton covers the use of Proctorio with third-party material.

Director of Online Learning Shannon Creighton shares a final Proctorio tutorial regarding proctored exams specifically for McGraw-Hill Connect.

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, Jon Scott, an instructor in Mechanical Engineering Technology, demonstrates how he utilizes OneNote to engage his students.

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).

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