Hybrid Format for MIC 101
Presented by Yun Moh
Topics
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What is hybrid?
Benefits
Logistics
Structure
How to Make it Work
How to Put Together
Challenges
Personal Project Structure
Increasing Retention
Q&A
What is Hybrid?
• Combination of the best elements of online
and face-to-face instruction models
• Solutions to course problems not possible in
in-class environment
• Independent, Interactive, & Group learning
• New types of student engagement
• Hybrid 2.0: The future is finally here.
Benefits
• Accommodate students with different learning
paces and styles
• Increase schedule flexibility (accessibility)
• Increase new types of interactions
• Instructor and Students AND among students
• Digital literacy and collaboration through
learning activities
• Multimedia and Open Access contents
• Instructional repository
• Course management
Logistics
• Cost: $5.27 per student or less
• Requires CRC approval
• SBCTC Definition : “For class sections that use
online technologies for less than 51%, AND for
which the interactive online learning
environment displaces some face-to-face
classroom time .”
• SCCC Definition (in planning): No more 51/49
• Student resources: Software and Internet access.
Structure
• Online
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Assignments (assigning, collecting, & grading)
Course information
Communication (email, announcements, discussions, & Q&A)
Grades and feedbacks
Learning materials
Learning tools
• Face-to-face
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Lectures and demonstrations
Orientation of Course Web site & Assignments
Extended & In-depth learning activities *
Q&A
Support
How to Make It Work
• Be creative and interactive
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Content base (not skill-base)
Project base
Group activities
Feedback
• Weave learning activites
– Independent Learning  Group Learning  Feedback
– Applying skills into projects
– Students articulate their knowledge  Sense of
ownership
How to Put Together
• Two pronged approaches
– Skill-base: Textbook/SAM (courseware) assignments
– Content-base
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Topic Discussions
Planning and Research
Personal/Group Projects
Feedback
• Weave two tracks into one project
– Individual application represent one component
– Research
– Combining skills and information into a hands-on project
Challenges
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Rethinking/re-aligning course design
Managing dual modes of instruction
Preparing students
Time management skills
It may or may not be for everyone
Personal Project Elements
• Business Plan
• Data and information research
– Information Literacy
– Library and database research
– Embedded librarian
• Content development and integration
• Feedback
Managing Hybrid
• In-class activities
• Connect in-class and online activities
• Active communication
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Email the weekly summary
Reminder email for important assignments
Announcements
Reply Q&A in email
Frequent feedback
• Breakdown big assignments in small segments
and provide feedback in each step.
• Automation: Tokens, Agents, and Grading
Q&A
Thank you!
References
• What are Hybrid Courses:
http://www4.uwm.edu/ltc/hybrid/
• SBCTC:
http://www.sbctc.edu/docs/datareporting/dl_
coursecoding_rev2_1.pdf
• Hybrid course gallery:
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/h
ybrids/gallery.php
Embedded Librarian - sample
On 11/2/2009 at 6:27 PM, John Dow wrote:
I am doing my business plans on a microbrewery, do we have any beer
specific or brewery specific periodicals? I was searching through the database
and I could only find ones on restaurants, but not specifically for brew pubs.
One that comes to my mind is "Beer Advocate.“ Thank you for your help. John.
On 11/3/2009 at 10:16 PM, Williams, Helene wrote:
Hi, John - when you say "database," do you mean the library catalog? Or the
periodicals collection listing? What may be of more use here is to try to locate
specific articles about breweries, and those could be in magazines and journals
that aren't specifically related to beer production (e.g. there might be articles in
those restaurant magazines). So: do some searching on your topic
in research databases; I'd suggest starting with either ABI/Inform or Academic
Search Complete.
For everyone in the class: there's a subject guide to business plan research
available on the UW Libraries site,
at http://guides.lib.washington.edu/content.php?pid=63698&sid=470091 Many
of the links off this guide are to free sites (e.g. you don't need a UW ID to
log on).
Independent Learning and Discussion sample
I think this is very useful personally. I love the fact that I'm
able to translate Farsi/Persian poetry. Even though I know it
is very difficult to translate poetry, the fact that I can get the
general meaning of it makes me happy. It is also a useful tool
for my Spanish class, I'm very happy that I learned how to do
this because the other translating tool I have been
using is very off.
Business wise I see this is useful in the sense of being able to
translate text at your fingertips versus finding someone and
waiting for them to translate it for you. It saves time, and it
makes things more fast and efficient in my opinion. I love
technology even more now that I've found out how to use
this.
Interactive Activities - samples
“I think that this is a great idea. The fact that the business will be
open on Saturdays will easily set you apart from your competitors. So
many people would benefit from having the extra day of operation. I
think that some sort of "medical" staff on board might need to be
taken into consideration for opening costs.”
“I LOVE your idea for your proposed hours. I have friend who has a
child in child care and she is always rushing to pick up her daughter
because she has to be picked up by 5:45 pm everyday. Her and her ex
boyfriend, who have shared custody, have to also work schedules to fit
their shared custody days as well as the daycare's schedule. To me it
seems very inconvenient and I don't understand why more daycares
don't have better hours! Your idea would be very popular and
profitable with the right location.”
Unrelated but Feeling Good
The best thing I learned would have to be the Access chapter. The
job I work uses Access so much to keep track of survey records and
survey results. Just this afternoon at work there was a problem with
running the query on turned in surveys. I get surveys mailed to me
then I enter them into Access and it puts the data like survey ID and
date turned in into an Access Database and each day I run a daily
report on how many were turned in.
There is usual a conditional query that asks me to enter the date
and it pulls up all the surveys for that date, today the query wasn't
asking me the date and that was because the condition for the date
was entered as 11/30/09 and it should have been [Date] so that way
it would allow me to type in the date and pull that specific days
surveys up.
I brought this to the attention of the project manager and told her
that I could fix it, because of what we had just learned. It felt good to
know that this class has helped me become a more knowledgeable
employee.