Office of Academic Programs
Hybrid Courses
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Hybrid Course Website.
See in particular, their pages on Advantages and Challenges, list of annotated links to articles, and instructions for accessing several hybrid course examples.
Narrated PowerPoint Presentation on Hybrid Courses
(You only need audio capabilities to view this presentation. If you have difficulties viewing the first slide, click Refresh in your browser. Please note that the resources referenced in the narration may be found in this page. Only the UW Milwaukee Prehistory is no longer available.)
PDF version of above slides
Here are annotated links to the examples referenced in the Hybrid Courses PowerPoint.
Slide 1 - Tom Creed Presentation
Example of a Structured Unit
http://employees.csbsju.edu/TCREED/collab/structur.htm
This is a unit on Pavlovian conditioning - click the day 1 graphics for a description of the activities.
Note that Creed divides the activities into pre-class and in-class. One could do many of his in-class activities using the web in or out of class.
Go to http://employees.csbsju.edu/TCREED/techno3.html#example for a discussion of the pedagogical advantages of this unit.
Extending the Classroom Walls Electronically
http://employees.csbsju.edu/TCREED/techno3.html
See the section on the Advantages of Electronic Communication.
Slide 2 - Virginia Tech's Design Shop http://www.edtech.vt.edu/edtech/id/ocs/discuss.html
Go to page 3 and click the Utah State link. Click Internet Technology in Developing Countries on the left, then click the links to the messages in the top frame. Note that you can see who responded to whom. Note also that the instructor has not only an initial question but a followup as well which extends student exploration of the subject matter.
Introduction to Manuscript Study http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/tutorials/manuscript
See the Introduction to Manuscript Study unit which steps students through comparing manuscripts, choosing a base manuscript, creating their own edition, and comparing it with a published edition.
Note that it is possible to view and compare two manuscripts at a time as well as view the chosen base manuscript while creating the final edition.
Slide 3 - UW Milwaukee Prehistory Example - no longer available
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Chickering and Gamson - Seven Principles
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/7princip.htm
UCG Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness
http://web.archive.org/web/20040728211700/http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~rite/Presentations/NLII+2001.ppt
This presentation is from the University of Central Florida Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness. Among other results, their research showed that students in Hybrid courses achieve better grades than students in traditional face-to-face courses or totally online courses.
The Roadmap to Redesign, at The National Center for Academic Transformation.
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The Roadmap to Redesign (R2R) is a three-year, FIPSE-funded initiative whose goal is to establish an efficient means of spreading the ideas and practices of the Program in Course Redesign to additional institutions."
This is an ongoing project in which core courses at institutions are redesigned to include the use of technology to enhance learning and reduce costs. There is a great deal of information on this site. For detailed information on the original projects, see Project Descriptions. (Looking at these pages will take some time but is very enlightening.)