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4/04

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. MORE

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 guidelines for determining which courses at NU can be converted to a hybrid format. MORE

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. MORE

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. MORE

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. MORE

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. MORE

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. MORE

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