NORTHEASTERN'S EDTECH CENTER FOCUSED ON FACULTY SUPPORT &
COURSE DESIGN
The Educational Technology Center (EdTech) at Northeastern
University is fulfilling its mission "to improve teaching
and learning with technology through research, development
and training" and help NU faculty "assimilate everything
from digital imaging devices to software for developing Web
sites." In particular, EdTech has been expanding its hybrid
course development efforts.
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A FRAMEWORK FOR THE SELECTION OF HYBRID COURSES
Northeastern University’s (NU) "Teaching and Learning with
Technology Roundtable" includes a working group that has
recommended a number of guidelines for determining which
courses at NU can be converted to a hybrid format.
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UW-MILWAUKEE PROJECT PREPARES AND SUPPORTS INSTRUCTORS FOR
HYBRIDS
As noted on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Learning
Technology Center's (LTC) hybrid course Web site, the LTC
staff, since 1999, "has repeated, revised and refined our
formal training program for assisting faculty who are
designing and teaching hybrid courses for the first time."
In an interview with LTC Director Robert Kaleta and two of
his colleagues, Instructional Design Consultants Alan Aycock
and Jay Caulfield, along with a review of some of the
literature the LTC team has created since 1999, Educational
Pathways got a timely update related to how faculty in the
UW system are adapting to the, so to speak, hybrid
phenomenon.
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FIVE SIMPLE PRINCIPLES FOR CONNECTING ONLINE WITH
FACE-TO-FACE IN A HYBRID COURSE
A condensed and slightly edited version of five simple
principles developed by Assistant Professor Peter Sands, who
taught a hybrid Advanced Writing Workshop as part of the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Hybrid Course Project.
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UW-MILWAUKEE'S TEN HYBRID COURSE PLANNING QUESTIONS
UWM's faculty development program that helps to prepare
teachers in the UW system to teach in the hybrid mode starts
with ten important questions that provide the basis for a
hybrid course redesign plan, and subsequently for
constructing a hybrid course syllabus.
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TEN ONLINE RESOURCES RELATED TO HYBRID COURSES
A short list of online resources, with brief abstracts of
each, related to the creation and implementation of hybrid
teaching and learning environments provided courtesy of the
First Sloan Consortium Invitational Workshop on Blended
Learning and Higher Education to be hosted by the University
of Illinois at Chicago from April 26 though 28, 2004.
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THE DIGITAL OPTIMIST
Editor and Publisher George Lorenzo continues with some very
timely information on the marketing of distance education by
highlighting two reports that were published recently by UBS
Investment Research. The reports forecast the growth of
online learning programs in higher education and portray
proprietary institutions that offer online programs and that
also have on-ground campuses as key players with
entrepreneurial, market-savvy infrastructures that are
successfully targeting and servicing adult learners.
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