Hybrid Learning Guide for Faculty

What is Hybrid Learning?

At NWACC, hybrid courses are a 50/50 mixture of an online delivery and a face-to-face delivery of instruction:

• Half of the time, students will work individually and/or with others online.
• The other half of the time, students will be together in a physical classroom, in an active-learning environment.

What Does Hybrid Learning Look Like?

It is important that both delivery systems in a hybrid learning course be active, collaborative, and socially engaging.

Yes, there will be information to be read, and videos to watch, and some of that may be done individually. But for it to be learning-centered, best practice indicates it will also be active where you will be doing something with the information both by oneself and with others.

If designed well, both delivery methods will provide students with cooperative learning experiences, appropriate time to reflect on the content, assessments on their learning, and time to reflect about the depth and breadth of their learning (or metacognition). 

Now let's get started.

• If you previously taught the class, review your prior experiences.
  • What went well? What could be improved?
  • Have you reviewed the student comments from the course evaluations?
  • Which learning activities make the most sense to be completed in the online environment?
  • Which learning activities did you find students needed the most direct guidance upon and would benefit from your immediate presence and facilitation?
• Create a course map to seamlessly plan the topics and delivery.
  • Scaffolded assignments reduce student overwhelm when longer assignments are broken down into more bite-sized pieces.
  • In your course map, does the content flow logically to what they will learn next?
• Make sure that all resources and assignment descriptions are clearly written and accessible.
  • Is the formatting consistent?
  • Can students find what they need easily?