Provides Five Principles for Developing Hybrid Course

Sands, P. (2002). Inside outside, upside downside: Strategies for connecting online and face-to-face instruction in hybrid courses. Teaching with Technology Today, 8(6), Retrieved September 7, 2005, from http://www.uwsa.edu/ttt/articles/sands2.htm

Summary:

Defines what a hybrid course is.

Provides five principles for developing hybrid course:

1.  Start small and work backward from your final goal - Learning objectives is especially important when using technology.

2.  Imagine interactivity rather than delivery - Online activities should require the students to interact with each other and with the instructor.

3.  Prepare yourself for loss of power and a distribution of demands on your time more evenly through the week - Students are no longer confined in one place at the same time, so more difficult to manage.

4.  Be explicit about time-management issues and be prepared to teach new skills - Students may having difficulty with assignments being made and due throughout the week instead of a particular class time meeting.

5.  Plan for effective uses of the classroom time that connect with the online work – Instructors should use the two methods of delivery that produce a shared result such as having students post responses online and then discuss a few of them in class.