Hybrid Course Models

This course has been developed to support hybrid instruction, but nearly everything also applies to fully online / distance learning courses.

Your Course Structure

Due to Coronavirus, the menu of possible structures for hybrid courses has expanded. Traditionally, hybrid courses meet a set number of times in person and are otherwise online, with every student expected to be in the face-to-face sessions.

For now, many courses will be offered that have face-to-face sessions for different subgroups of students,  in rotation, to allow for proper social distancing and it is a requirement by UWT that "asynchronous alternatives should be provided for online meetings, recordings of in-class sessions should be made by the instructor, and opportunities to make up missed work should be offered" for all courses.

Before moving forward with anything else, you need to know how your course will be structured, and be prepared to offer the required asynchronous alternatives.

Definitions

Note: the following definitions are being stretched or temporarily modified due to Coronavirus, but it still helps to understand the distinction (and terminology) we'll be using.

At UW Tacoma, courses taught wholly or partially online are defined by the following:

Hybrid Course: courses where between 40-99% of scheduled in-person class time is replaced with asynchronous online learning tools. Also, there must be at least one in-person class meeting.  In other words, synchronous online time cannot entirely substitute for in-person class time. 

If you are searching for information and solutions in the world at large, these are sometimes also called blended, flipped online, and flexible (to name a few).

Distance Learning (Online) Course: courses where in-person interaction between students and professors is entirely replaced with online learning tools and content, that do not require a synchronous online presence of all students.