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| What is your discipline and the title of your course? |
Physics
College Physics I & II
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| What makes your course a hybrid? |
| What made my courses hybrid was that we met once F2F each week and the other normally scheduled class (each ~3 hrs.) was unscheduled. It was a 50/50 kinda thing...
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| What kind of activities do students do in out of class time? |
| A big part of it was to work on their projects. I run a project/problem based curriculum, so much of their OOC time was devoted to team meetings. They also used this time for research and dealing with some of my pesky BlackBoard quizzes and discussion questions.
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| Where do your students do their out of work activities? |
| They were never out of work! However, if you meant "...where do they do their out of class work?", I'd answer "Lots of places!" For project work, the most used location was whoever's house had the best tools and junk. Some even turned it into a ethnic cuisine sharing deal where they moved from home to home and sampled foods from their home countries and heritages. The ubiquitous computer work took place myriad places. We worked to deliver proprietary software through the internet so they could do everything almost anywhere (but, not necessarily as quickly).
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| What was the reason for offering your course as a hybrid? |
As an experiment...
I tried a double-up (that is copyrighted!) where I scheduled 2 classes on top of each other and met one of them one of the normal days and the other the other. I did this to explore greater space utilization. I was able to cram (?!) at least twice as many students through the same physics lab in the same time that way.
I also did a double-down arrangement (that is also copyrighted!!!) wherein I split a 24 student class in half and met one of them on M and the other on W (I ended up with 28 students after the split... I'll have to ask a biologist about that phenomena...). SInce physics labs are big and expensive to build and operate (compared to lecture spaces), I thought this sizing would allow for the exploration of offering physics in spaces other than physics labs.
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| How many scheduled f2f meetings are there and how are they scheduled? |
| It was 50/50 for all weeks other than the first and the last.
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| What technologies support your hybrid? |
| I'd like to start by thanking Al Gore for inventing the internet! Most of what we do involves the interet.
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| What worked? What did not? |
| Used space well. Didn't use time well. I'm way too improvisational to work well in this environment. I spent months planning and preparing and then a story on NPR on my way in would trash my plan...
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| What would you do over/different? |
| I stopped doing it and won't restart until early retirement (not so long off...) or something. My current teaching/learning style doesn't seem to match with either online or hybrid courses. I think they can be done well (by someone other than me...)
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| How were you supported? |
If you mean money for me, I wasn't (I didn't ask for any).
On the othe hand, my colleagues, superviors, and districut gruops helped a bunch. Our computer folks were incredible!
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