COURSE REDESIGN FOR HYBRID LEARNING
July 14 - August 4,
2006
innovative faculty already
experienced in using Blackboard and interested in delivering some or a
significant portion of course content using online activities, exercises, and
discussions.
Full-time faculty from across the
curriculum and at all levels of instruction are encouraged to apply. We
especially encourage course redesign faculty teams from the same discipline who
will work together to transform a current course offering. Please submit
a workshop application, indicating the course you are targeting for
redesign, and submit by January 15, 2006 to
assure first consideration. The program will remain open until filled.
Workshop Specifics: The
purpose of this program, jointly offered by the Teaching Effectiveness Program
and the Center for Educational Technology, 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 – courses for which seat time is reduced in exchange for
robust online learning experiences using Blackboard, and in which
remaining face-to-face time is restructured to replace lecture with discussion
and reflection.
The training itself will be conducted via 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 and will require participants to log on several times in between
face-to-face meetings to post projects and engage in guided discussions and
colleague feedback. 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 2006. An additional
follow-up/assessment sessions
will be scheduled for fall term. The workshop will be led by Laurie
Jones Neighbors,
Georgeanne Cooper of the Teaching Effectiveness Program, and
JQ Johnson, the director of the Center for Educational Technologies, along 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. Please note that, in
addition to a commitment to attend all face-to-face meetings, participants
should plan on spending a minimum of ten hours per week outside of the workshop
for completion of projects and activities.