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| What is your discipline and the title of your course? |
I am English faculty; I teach these courses in Hybrid formats:
English 101: First Year Composition; English 102: First Year Composition; ENH294: Multicultural Folktales
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| What makes your course a hybrid? |
| Hybrid courses at EMC are a blend of face-to-face instruction with online learning requiring students to work one day on campus in the classroom with the instructor and working one day online.
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| What kind of activities do students do in out of class time? |
The out of class time is spent primarily on line.
English 101: Students are taken to learning links related to assigned essays and textbook readings. The purpose of these links could include reading for understanding, online exercises and so on. Portions of this time are also used for composing, editing, and revising assigned essays or perhaps taking quizzes.
English 102: Students are taken to learning links related to assigned essays and textbook readings. The purpose of these links could include reading for understanding, online exercises and so on. Portions of this time are also used for composing, editing, and revising assigned essays or perhaps taking quizzes. With a valid student ID in hand, students may also have full access to the EMC Electronic Library, enabling them to do major researching from any place where the student has access to the Internet.
The first paper students write in this course is a mini group research paper. Students are placed in groups and collaborate to solve a research problem.
English Humanities 294: Students spend a majority of their out of class time doing course related research on the Internet. This includes going to assigned links provided by the instructor to learn about and read a variety of folktales, searching for their own web sites containing assigned types of tales and/or searching about the cultures from which these tales originate. Students are expected to create a portfolio of tales and cultural information resulting from their web searches.
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| Where do your students do their out of work activities? |
| Some students work at home or offices; some work in the Estrella Hall Information Commons. It can be anywhere students have access to the Internet.
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| What was the reason for offering your course as a hybrid? |
| We wanted to provide students with flexibility of scheduling classes to meet their personal schedule needs. We felt that the hybrid would give the students the best of both worlds: face-to-face instruction and online learning. As a growing campus, we also face the problem of having more classes to offer than we have classroom space for these classes. With the hybird format, we free up more classroom space; this enables us to offer more of the courses that our students need.
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| How many scheduled f2f meetings are there and how are they scheduled? |
| We only offer hybrids on Tuesdays and Thursday. Students spend one day in the face-to-face format; the other day is spent online from a location of their choosing and at a time of their choosing.
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| What technologies support your hybrid? |
Our primary supports are these:
The EMC College Home Page with important access to the EMC Electronic Library and the Internet
All of our hybrid courses are created in Blackboard.
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| What worked? What did not? |
Creating the courses in Blackboard has been an excellent choice. The latest version of Blackboard allows greater flexibility for group work and group dynamics. The new feature that allows work to be submitted easily on line and scored and immediately recorded in the online gradebook is excellent.
What did not work was my failure to balance types of assignments so that I did not overburden myself with online grading. I had to cut the number of Discussion Boards in half in all classes to make it more manageable for me. I also learned that I need to assign students to groups the first week of the course. Giving the students choices of groups was not effective because students tended to group with those whom they knew, often excluding less aggressive or less social students.
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| What would you do over/different? |
| I would ask for and expect administrative support for the creating of these courses: I was paid for some of my efforts; I had no released time for course development which would have been helpful.
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| How were you supported? |
| Technological support through campus Blackboard support was excelelnt. Though some campus computer or Center for Teaching and Learning personal supported my efforts, a larger staff could have given me greater assistance. The support I did receive with limited staffing was outstanding but not enough.
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