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What is Multimodal Delivery?

It is when a professor delivers the same course offering via multiple modes and students choose how they wish to participate.

Professor teaching multimodal to students in classroom and online via web conference application on their laptop.

Image from California State University

It provides students with flexible course participation options – depending on their learning needs and life circumstances.

The two most common multi-modal delivery formats include BlendSync and HyFlex.

BlendSync

In this format, all students participate in regularly-scheduled, synchronous classes. They choose whether to attend class on-campus or virtually via web conferencing.

 

HyFlex

HyFlex is a more advanced format – since a professor is managing their presence across three different modes at the same time. Like BlendSync, learners can choose to participate in regularly scheduled, synchronous classes – either on-campus or virtually via web conferencing. However, they can pursue a third choice – asynchronous – which would be an alternate option.

What Can Multimodal Delivery Look Like?

View video case studies that show how several universities have implemented a BlendSync form of multi-modal delivery.

Multimodal Delivery at Algonquin

Read about the multimodal delivery pilot taking place during the 2021/22 academic year.

The Language Institute has been practicing multimodal delivery for about eight years.

Read about how they implemented what they called AAA – Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere learning.