Hybrid Course Development Training
March 19-20, 2004

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Description

Designing and teaching a hybrid course is significantly different than designing and teaching a web-enhanced course. That's why we brought in an experienced faculty member from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Dr. Jay Caulfield. Jay joined us, along with several of her faculty colleagues via video conferencing, to train Westminster faculty on how to design, implement and manage a hybrid course. A hybrid course is one in which a significant amount of teaching and learning activities are moved outside of the classroom into an online environment. Hybrid courses have several advantages. They are more flexible which allows students to take courses with more scheduling options and less campus visits. Also, hybrid courses can promote active learning and collaboration.

Dr. Jay Caulfield has been an Instructional Design Consultant at the Golda Meir Learning Technology Center at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since March 2002. Jay also teaches in the Schools of Business at UW-Milwaukee and Marquette University, and the school of Public Service Administration at Marquette. We also participated in a video conference with consulants and faculty at the UW-Milwaukee. Bob Kaleta, Alan Aycock, and Amy Mangrich shared their varied perspectives from different disciplines.

Some important points that were discussed at the conference include:

• Hybrid courses move a significant amount of learning online, making it possible to reduce the amount of time spent in class. The faculty we worked with move about 1/3 of their class time online.
• Effective hybrid courses combine the best elements of face-to-face with the best of distance education: immediate feedback, nonverbal cues, active learning, flexibility, reflective responses, greater student participation and more collaboration.
• Hybrid is not just transferring information the the Web. It involves extensive course redesign.
• Students spend more time working individually and collaboratively on assignments, projects and activities; faculty spend less time lecturing and more time reviewing, guiding, and interacting with students.
• Hybrid is more learner centered; faculty can teach in new ways; students are more accountable for their learning.
• Efficiencies that occur in hybrid courses are through freeing up tight classroom space, appealing to new markets, increasing retention. But, most exciting is that research is beginning to show, and faculty say, that hybrid courses improve student learning.

Jay shared several helpful examples of how she integrates online and classroom instruction. Attendees were enthusiastic about what they learned and experienced at the training...just ask them!

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Attendees

Arts & Sciences
Michael Markowski, History

Business
Alysse Morton, Business Management
Jerry Van Os, Acouunting
Maria Wrotniak, Economics
Chris Tong, Economics
Shannon Bellamy, Business Management
Kim Dodson, Marketing

Education
Peter Ingle

Nursing
Bonnie Benson

Information Resources
Carol Poelman, Faculty Technology Center
Chuck Malenfant, Giovale Library
Sheryl Phillips, VP for Information Resources
Meggan Levitt, Faculty Technology Center

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Hybrid Course Resources

WebCT Site

A WebCT Site created by Jay Caulfield has resources including an online discussion board, web resources for Hybrid Course teaching, and an online participant survey. If you are interested in viewing the course, please call the Faculty Technology Center at 832-2015.

Web Resources

Created by the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, this site has great information for both students and instructors who are taking or would like to teach a Hybrid Course:
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/LTC/hybrid.html

Westminster Library Resources

Here are just a few of the several books in the Westminster Library about Assessment in education.

Classroom assessment techniques : a handbook for college teachers / Thomas A. Angelo, K. Patricia Cross. Publisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1993.

Discussion-based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning / Tisha Bender.. Publisher: Sterling : Stylus Publishing, c2003.

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