Traits of Effective Hybrid Courses
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A well-designed hybrid course typically has many of these traits:
- Focuses on learners and learning, rather than simply content delivery and testing of information acquisition
- Places emphasis on learning as an active process, not as passive absorption of information
- Includes online interaction among students and between instructor and students
- Has significant instructor presence online throughout the course
- Uses less than half of in-class time for one-way delivery of information by the instructor via lecture
- Devotes significant in-class time to active learning including interaction between students and instructor
- Engages students every week in learning activities and interaction both in class and online
- Explicitly integrates online (asynchronous) content and activities with in-class (synchronous) content and activities
- Has frequent low-stakes assessments of student learning at regular intervals with timely feedback
- Uses rubrics on assignments where appropriate for guidance and for structured feedback
- Makes possible a degree of student choice over pathways to reach learning outcomes
- Aligns content, resources, activities and assessment with learning outcomes
From Blended Learning Resources – Center for Teaching and Learning, Oregon State University