Many times institutions, instructors, or businesses see the advantage to convert established courses from the traditional face to face structure to total distance learning or into a mixed method. The mixed, or hybrid, method of instruction can offer many advantages. This approach can increase student interaction through better design of content delivery. The hybrid or distance component of most courses add a higher level of technology which can be structured to add a lot of engagement activities and interest by the students. The use of the hybrid method also allows the flexibility in our busy lives for students to meet increasing time demands and geographic distance can be lessened by fewer face to face meetings.
I have put together a preliminary guide to assist the instructor of a previously traditional class to initialize the process of reorganizing a course for a hybrid delivery. This guide moves the instructor through the process of re-examining existing goals and objectives to use tables to visualize and create a balance in expectations for the course. It will be important with the mixing of methods to decide what will be delivered face to face and what will be delivered in a distance environment. This process helps the teacher make those decisions.
The guide also goes in closer to help assign activities for the objectives established. Because an increased focus on the student and their level of engagement is beneficial in the online setting, an attempt to balance the modes of the learning activities is employed.
Last, vital elements of the course syllabus or presented in checklist form to assist the process of building a complete document for the hybrid course. Because the syllabus is a very important document these components are critical to the success of the student.
Select the Guide link to view the PDF document.
Course Conversion Guide
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