Best Practices in Hybrid Teaching Teresa PotterUrsuline College Fall 2014

Best Practices in Blended Learning

1. Clearly define goals before you start thinking about technology tools

2. Utilize Bloom’s Revisited Taxonomy and Digital Taxonomy to set goals

3. Use Backwards Design to determine needs

4. Use TPACK to determine what you are trying to do better with technology

F2F Blended Hybrid Online

Best Practices in Hybrid Learning and Workshop Objectives

1. Use TPACK to analyze the context of your hybrid course

2. Create measurable learning objectives to establish your destination

3. Create an assessment strategy that makes the best use of your context and technology available – online or F2F

4. Create a content delivery strategy that makes the best use of your context and technology available – online or F2F

5. Choose your interaction and engagement strategy that makes the best use of your context and technology available – online or F2F

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1.Use TPACK to analyze the context of your hybrid course

The three things you do in your class

Deliver Content

• Readings • Lectures • Videos

Create Interaction and Engagement

Opportunities

• Discussions • Labs • Activities

Assess Student Learning

• Formative assessments

• Summative Assessments

2. Create Measurable Learning Objectives

Write objectives describing what the students will do

Create objectives that are appropriate to the level of the course

Use action verbs to describe what students will be able to do upon successful completion

Alignment

1.Objectives are the destination for your course.

2.Content and interaction/engagement are how your students will get there.

3.The assessments are how you will know if they have reached the destination.

An example

Another example Objective

• Students will be able to present a persuasive speech.

Content

• Students read about persuasive speeches

• Students watch historical persuasive speeches

Interaction and Engagement

• Students analyze why the historical speeches succeeded at being persuasive

Assessment

• Students take a multiple choice and essay test about persuasive techniques

Guiding principal

Seek to do more with technology than you

could do without

3. Create an assessment strategy that makes the best use of your context and technology available

Online or Face2Face? Auto-graded or hand-graded quizzes?

Dropboxes or paper essays?

Quizzes and test in class, or on their own time?

Special equipment needed? Academic honesty concern?

Multimedia essays and presentations?

Can you develop a new type of assessment to make use of available technology?

Group work or individual work?

“Strategy” simply means choosing your tools with intentionality

4. Create a content strategy that makes the best use of your context and technology available

Online or Face2Face? Are reading/study guides needed to student reading/viewing?

Recreate lectures for online viewing?

Links to library articles for reading?

Embed video and multimedia in your course?

Is a textbook required or helpful?

Is publisher content available? Can you develop a new type of content delivery to make better use of technology?

Flipped classroom?

Sources for Course Content

5. Create an interaction and engagement strategy that makes the best use of your context and technology available

Online or Face2Face? Student-to-student One tools already available?

recreate Special equipment needed? Student to content

Student to instructor Can you develop a new interaction or engagement activity to make use of available technology?

Group work or individual work?

Guiding principal

Seek to do more with technology than you

could do without