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Table of Contents: March 2002
Volume 8, Number 6


Introduction to Hybrid Courses
by Carla Garnham and Robert Kaleta, UW-Milwaukee

When designed carefully, a hybrid course combines the best features of in-class teaching with the best features of online learning to promote active student learning. In this hybrid course primer, Garnham and Kaleta describe their Hybrid Course Project, funded by UW System and coordinated by UW-Milwaukee's Learning Technology Center. Readers can access streaming media clips of participating instructors discussing their hybrid course experiences -- a TTT first. (Note: Viewers will need RealPlayer to download the clips.)

Approximately "Real World" Learning with the Hybrid Model
by Rachel Spilka, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

How can instructors of business and professional writing prepare students for the relative freedom and independence of workplace writing? Despite all her efforts, Rachel Spilka's students tended to work on projects with too much instructor oversight and supervision, to collaborate mostly in person with writers they knew well instead of collaborating from a distance with writers they barely knew, and to manage projects with regular instructor or peer input, instead of mostly on their own. She discusses how the hybrid model helped free her from the restraints of traditional instruction to simulate the "real world" for her students.

Reflections on Teaching a Large Enrollment Course Using a Hybrid Format
by John (Jack) Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Large enrollment classes pose a plethora of challenges to university instructors. Jack Johnson, who teaches a large enrollment business communications course at UW- Milwaukee, outlines his major concerns in this article: students' accessibility to course content, the effectiveness of teaching to What I did
find in the using the hybrid format was something which significantly increased the accessibility, effectiveness, and connectivity of my large enrollment course. In my opinion, anything that does these three things is worth investigating.

 

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