July 25 - August 15, 2005
Target audience: 5 to 10 faculty members who are already familiar with the Blackboard system and are interested in an in-depth introduction on radically restructuring a UO course to fit a hybrid model.
TEP and CET will offer a workshop on "Course Redesign for Hybrid Learning". The purpose of this program is to prepare and support faculty who wish to design and teach a hybrid course for the first time. Participants will be introduced to the concept of hybrid courses in which seat time is reduced in exchange for more robust online learning using Blackboard, and in which remaining face-to-face time is restructured to replace lecture with discussion and reflection.
The training will be conducted in a hybrid course format, combining four half-day face-to-face sessions focused on the pedagogy of the hybrid course redesign process with pre-training activities and online assignments between each face-to-face session. These activities will be the foundation for teaching an effective hybrid course. Individual consultations, available upon request, will address specific course redesign issues and instructional technology questions. Ongoing debriefing and assessment will ensure that the program is meeting the needs of participants.
An initial interview and pre-training assignment meant to engage participants in thinking about hybrid teaching and learning as related to their respective course redesign will take place during spring term 2005.An additional follow-up/assessment session will be scheduled for fall term. The workshop will be led by Laurie Jones Neighbors and Georgeanne Cooper of the Teaching Effectiveness Program and JQ Johnson, the director of the Center for Educational Technologies, with assistance from other faculty and staff.
Completion of the hybrid course, including follow-up, will result in a payment of $2500 in either summer pay or research support.