Research Area: Hybrid courses
Doug Ward is an associate professor at the University of Kansas, and in 2011 he received an honor as the nation’s best teacher of journalism and mass communication. So when Ward decided to develop his first online class – one that would reflect his award-winning instruction in the traditional classroom – he figured it would be a successful transition. He couldn’t have been more wrong. Thankfully, Ward reflected on his shortcomings as an online instructor and the weaknesses of his course in … Continue reading
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog last week highlighted a new study that bolsters the notion that student learning outcomes are the same in hybrid courses as they are in a traditional classroom. The findings come from a study released last Tuesday by Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit dedicated to helping the academic community use technology to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. Hybrid courses are taught partly online and partly face-to-face, and an increasing number of studies … Continue reading