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Building Learning Communities with Hybrid Courses
NMC Online Conference on Social ComputingNovember 2004Robert Kaleta and Alan Aycock
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Session Presenters
Bob Kaleta
Alan Aycock
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Session Overview1. Hybrid definition and description
2. Social interaction in hybrid courses
3. Role of asynchronous discussion forums
4. Hybrid assignment demonstration
5. Pedagogical advantages
6. Lessons learned
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Hybrid Course DescriptionDefinition
• Partially online courses where significant portions of the course learning activities are online and face-to-face classroom time has been reduced.
• Partially online
• Partially face-to-face
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Hybrid Course DescriptionTerminology
• Hybrid• Blended
Opportunity• Hybrid courses provide an opportunity to
combine the best elements of face-to-face instruction with the best aspects of distance education
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Basic Hybrid DescriptionStudents
• Spend more time working individually and collaboratively on assignments, projects, and activities
Faculty • Spend less time lecturing and more time
reviewing and evaluating student work and guiding and interacting with students
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Hybrid Courses & Community
Initial concerns of faculty• Fewer face-to-face meetings
• Less social interaction with students• Will not know students as well• Will not feel connected to students• Will have less discussion
• Less social interaction between students
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Hybrid Courses & CommunityHybrid course outcomes
• More interaction with students• Greater student participation in discussion
• Online and in class
• Know students better• Academically and personally
• Feel more connected to students
• More interaction between students
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Hybrid Courses & CommunityWhy is there greater social interaction?
• More opportunities for interaction• Asynchronous discussion forums• Face-to-face discussion• Small group work
• Online• Face-to-face
• E-mail• Online chat
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Hybrid Courses & CommunityCourse redesign is critical
• Must build-in opportunities for interaction
• Must provide guidance and parameters
• Must incorporate in assessment plan
• Must integrate with face-to-face component
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Asynchronous Discussion Forums• Most common online activity in courses
• Stable technology that is easy to use
• Permanent threaded record of submissions and interaction
• Removes or reduces problems with group work
• Reduces many social and cultural factors that inhibit face-to-face discussion
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Hybrid Course Assignment
Anthropology of Religion• Senior-level course• 20-25 students• 1/3 Online• 2/3 face-to-face
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Hybrid Assignment Design“Closing the loop”
• Rehearsal
• Reflection
• Sharing
• Responding
• Debriefing
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Pedagogical AdvantagesStudents must participate
Students address one another directly
Threads allow complex issues to be systematically discussed and reviewed
Time for students to reflect
Stimulates in-class discussion
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Hybrid Courses & CommunityAsynchronous discussion forums
• Lessons learned • Frame the discussion
• Identify the instructor’s voice
• Keep the conversation going
• Assess learning outcomes and learning process
• Integrate with face-to-face component
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Contact InformationLearning Technology CenterUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
414 229-4319
Alan [email protected]
Robert [email protected]