EDUCAUSE - From Rubric to Reality: Designing a Hybrid Course

Deborah Mateik
Instructional Designer - University of Maryland

Take a pre-existing 15-week course and adapt it to fit into a 6-week summer session

• Course prepares students to support faculty using technology in their teaching
• Model uses of technology in the classroom and course space

Before Hybrid Transformation

• 4 units of study
• 2.5 hours per week for 15 weeks
• Support with documents, quizzes, etc
• Individual and group research done via paper submission

Post Hybrid

• 4 units of study
• 2.5 hours/week over 6 weeks face-to-face
• Other time was completed through online pieces
• Support with content, lecture materials, quizzes, blogs, wikis, discussion board, self-assessments, assignment submission, Live Classroom
• Individual and collaborative projects performed online

Unit 1: The Blackboard System
Unit 2: Web Sites, Web pages, and HTMP
Unit 3: Creating Effective Presentations
Unit 4: Creating Digital Media

Notes:

• In 6 week hybrid class it's very important to establish precise achievable goals for course & all assignments & exercises
• You may need to cut assignments or portions of assignments
• Major work focuses on one big project rather than several separate - must fit goes of those projects into the one instead
• http://elms.umd.edu