Hybrid Format for MIC 101

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Hybrid Format for MIC 101

• Presented by Yun Moh
• MIC Retreat 2009

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Topics

• What is hybrid?
• Logistics
• Structure
• How to Make it Work
• How to Put Together
• Challenges
• Personal Project Structure
• Increasing Retention
• QA

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What is Hybrid?

• Combination of the best elements of online and
  face-to-face instruction models
• Solutions to course problems not possible in
  in-class environment
• Interactive and independent learning
• New types of student engagement

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Logistics

• Cost 5.27 per student
• Requires CRC approval
• SBCTC Definition For class sections that use
  online technologies for less than 51, AND for
  which the interactive online learning environment
  displaces some face-to-face classroom time .
• Student resources Software and Internet access.

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Structure

• Online
• Assignments (posting, collecting, grading)
• Course information
• Communication (email, announcements, discussions,
  QA)
• Grades
• Related learning materials
• Face-to-face
• Lectures and demonstrations
• Course Web site basics
• Orientation of assignments
• QA
• Support

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How to Make It Work

• Be creative and interactive
• Content base
• Project base
• Group activities
• Feedback
• Weave learning experience together
• Independent Learning ? Group Learning ? Feedback
• Applying skills into projects
• Students articulate their knowledge ? Sense of
  ownership

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How to Put Together

• Two pronged approaches
• Skill-base Textbook/SAM assignments
• Content-base
• Topic Discussions
• Planning and Research
• Personal/Group Projects
• Weave two tracks into one project
• Individual application represent one component
• Research
• Combining skills and information into a hands-on
  project

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Challenges

• Rethinking/re-aligning course design
• Managing dual modes of instruction
• Preparing students
• Time management skills

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Personal Project Elements

• Business Plan
• Data and information research
• Information Literacy
• Library and database research
• Embedded librarian
• Content development and integration
• Feedback

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Managing Hybrid

• In-class activities
• Connect in-class and online activities
• Active communication
• Email the weekly summary
• Reminder email for important assignments
• Announcements
• Reply QA in email
• Frequent feedback
• Breakdown big assignments in small segments and
  provide feedback in each step.
• Automation Tokens, Agents, and Grading

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Q A
Thank you!
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References

• What are Hybrid Courses http//www4.uwm.edu/ltc/h
  ybrid/
• SBCTC http//www.sbctc.edu/docs/datareporting/dl_
  coursecoding_rev2_1.pdf
• Hybrid course gallery http//www.mcli.dist.maric
  opa.edu/ocotillo/hybrids/gallery.php

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Embedded Librarian - sample

• On 11/2/2009 at 627 PM, John Dow wrote
• I am doing my business plans on a
  microbrewery, do we have any beer specific or
  brewery specific periodicals? I was searching
  through the database and I could only find ones
  on restaurants, but not specifically for brew
  pubs. One that comes to my mind is "Beer
  Advocate. Thank you for your help. John.
• On 11/3/2009 at 1016 PM, Williams, Helene wrote
• Hi, John - when you say "database," do you
  mean the library catalog? Or the periodicals
  collection listing? What may be of more use here
  is to try to locate specific articles about
  breweries, and those could be in magazines and
  journals that aren't specifically related to beer
  production (e.g. there might be articles in those
  restaurant magazines). So do some searching on
  your topic in research databases I'd suggest
  starting with either ABI/Inform or Academic
  Search Complete.
• For everyone in the class there's a subject
  guide to business plan research available on the
  UW Libraries site, at http//guides.lib.washington
  .edu/content.php?pid63698sid470091 Many of the
  links off this guide are to free sites (e.g. you
  don't  need a UW ID to log on).

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Independent Learning and Discussion - sample

• I think this is very useful personally. I love
  the fact that I'm able to translate Farsi/Persian
  poetry. Even though I know it is very difficult
  to translate poetry, the fact that I can get the
  general meaning of it makes me happy. It is
  also a useful tool for my Spanish class, I'm very
  happy that I learned how to do this because the
  other translating tool I have been using is very
  off. 
• Business wise I see this is useful in the sense
  of being able to translate text at your
  fingertips versus finding someone and waiting for
  them to translate it for you. It saves time, and
  it makes things more fast and efficient in my
  opinion. I love technology even more now that
  I've found out how to use this.

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Interactive Activities - samples

• I think that this is a great idea. The fact that
  the business will be open on Saturdays will
  easily set you apart from your competitors. So
  many people would benefit from having the extra
  day of operation. I think that some sort of
  "medical" staff on board might need to be taken
  into consideration for opening costs.
• I LOVE your idea for your proposed hours.  I
  have friend who has a child in child care and she
  is always rushing to pick up her daughter because
  she has to be picked up by 545 pm everyday.  Her
  and her ex boyfriend, who have shared custody,
  have to also work schedules to fit their shared
  custody days as well as the daycare's schedule. 
  To me it seems very inconvenient and I don't
  understand why more daycares don't have better
  hours!  Your idea would be very popular and
  profitable with the right location.

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Unrelated but Feeling Good

• The best thing I learned would have to be
  the Access chapter. The job I work uses Access so
  much to keep track of survey records and survey
  results. Just this afternoon at work there was a
  problem with running the query on turned in
  surveys. I get surveys mailed to me then I enter
  them into Access and it puts the data like survey
  ID and date turned in into an Access Database and
  each day I run a daily report on how many were
  turned in.
• There is usual a conditional query that asks
  me to enter the date and it pulls up all the
  surveys for that date, today the query wasn't
  asking me the date and that was because the
  condition for the date was entered as 11/30/09
  and it should have been Date so that way it
  would allow me to type in the date and pull that
  specific days surveys up.
• I brought this to the attention of the
  project manager and told her that I could fix it,
  because of what we had just learned. It felt good
  to know that this class has helped me become a
  more knowledgeable employee.