It might sound like the Parisian Left Bank but it could be your course. What are the Whys, Hows and Wows of crafting your course into a blended experience? How do we best exploit Web tools and resources to achieve a truly personalized learning environment? How do we decide what the balance of Face-to-face, synchronous, and asynchronus learning should be? Let's examine the structure of such a flexible, student-centric course and the roles of the people, tools, and spaces involved, designing with the analogy of the “Cafe”, the “Studio”, and the “Stage” in mind.
Hack Into the Hybrid
the Café, the Studio, & the Stage
*Larger Infographic is located on the resource page
The first "space" of the Hybrid course I envision is the café - it's a place to converse, question, communicate, network, offer ideas, and in general connect socially with others while tapping into one's individual thinking. It can also involve some direct instruction. It is not confined to a physical space, however - the café can be quite virtual and is often necessarily so.
The curtains never close on the Stage of a Hybrid Course. There is always room for Encore. The goal is to get students thinking and participating intellectually and creatively even when off campus or outside the regular school term. Since I have a 2 year course, it's expected that I have some requirements for the interim, but I also give some "nice to dos" and "cool to dos", as you can see in the doc linked here.
*Larger Infographic is located on the resource page
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