Friday, November 12, 2010
Experimenting with Hybrid Courses
Gena's idea about experimenting with a hybrid course has really made me reconsider how I might more effectively teach 101. It seems to me that not meeting formally/physically for every class meeting would give me more time to grade each student's writing more closely and to provide more one-on-one feedback (which I think would be even more effective at improving each individual student's writing than talking about writing in general to the entire class). I'm interested in what Dr. Felgar feels about this within the context of the attendance policy. If it is possible to try developing a hybrid 101 freshman comp. course, I'd be willing to give it a try. I think it would be exciting to reconsider how we deliver composition instruction and to focus more on application/workshopping/discussion during our face-to-face time with students, while poviding lecture-based information via Distance Learning.
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I found this resource for those interested in the pros and cons of hybrid courses:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.uh.edu/ir/fileadmin/reports/special/HybridReport.pdf
Tanya, we definitely need to get Bob's take on the attendance thing. Thank you so much for your interest and fantastic input. And, thanks for the resource!
ReplyDeleteAlso, Tanya, I love the fact that we have very opposite plans for how we would use class time in our hybrid courses. Since mine is a 102, I plan to use class time to lecture and have students do their writing away from me. Cannot wait to see how this works out!
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