Hybrid Learning

The Perils and Promise of Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education

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Hybrid Learning

The Perils and Promise of Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education

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A call for the extension of hybrid learning urges that it become not just a quick fix or a boon for the bottom line, but an educational mode that reenvisions quality teaching and learning for the 21st century.

Hybrid Learning: The Perils and Promise of Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education is an in-depth exploration of a new learning mode that could radically change higher education, incorporating emerging trends in technology and multimedia use—including online gaming, social networking, and other Web 2.0 applications—to create engaging and dynamic learning environments. Laying out fundamental challenges facing higher education today, this book shows how hybrid instruction can be designed and implemented to deliver excellent educational value in flexible modes and at moderate costs well-suited to the circumstances of many students and institutions.

The book lays out the characteristic profiles of students who are most likely to benefit from and perform well in a hybrid learning environment, as well as the features and practices of hybrid courses most likely to produce positive learning outcomes. It also specifies the obligations of faculty in designing and delivering best-practice hybrid courses and the support and policy obligations of institutions. Challenging prima-facie assumptions about hybrid learning, the author promotes it as nothing less than an opportunity to reenvision education for the 21st century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Method
Terminology
1 The Resistant Early Adopter
2 Challenges Facing Higher Education
Managing Enrollment
Scheduling and Classroom Space
Aligning Learning Objectives
Improving Student Retention, Success, and Completion
Reaching Tech-Savvy Students
Understanding Students, Technology, and Writing
Assessing the Digital Divide
Choosing a Direction
3 Going Hybrid: The Bigger Picture
Room for Innovation
Retaining Students Online: What Do We Know?
Responding to Competing Pressures
Our Media-Rich Environment: "Share Your Story"
Convergence: Technology and Media Participation
NYTimes Goes Interactive
Pirates of the Caribbean Online: Convergence and Participation
4 Hybrids: A Cultural Moment and Its History
Hybrid Learning as Distance Education
Diploma Mills: The New Shape of an Old Problem
Where Might the History of Distance Learning Go?
5 Hybrids in Action
Defining Terms (Again) and Upfront Advertising
Hybrids Across an Institution
Ada Wainwright, Psychology
Naheed Hasan, Psychology
Mitchell Fisher, Economics
Lois Stanciak, Education
A Hybrid Program
Master of Education in Educational Studies, University of Alberta
A Student Perspective
Emily Conradt, Graduate Student, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Variations on a Theme
Lessons to Learn?
6 Technology: Trending to Community and Collaboration
Course Management Systems: Building Virtual Presence
Blogs: A Public Sphere in the Classroom
Wikis: The Art of Managing Collaboration
Social Bookmarking: Sharing Content and Community
Second Life: Real Learning in a Virtual World
Exit Reality: The Social Web
And Now, the Next Big Thing …
7 A Resistant Early Adopter Argues for Hybridity
The End?
Appendix: At a Glance: What It Takes to Make Hybrid Learning Work
Notes
Index

Product details

Published May 05 2010
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 200
ISBN 9780313381577
Imprint Praeger
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Jason Allen Snart

Jason Allen Snart, PhD, is associate professor of…

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