Hybrid Learning: The Perils and Promise of Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education

by Snart, Jason Allen

• ISBN13: 9780313381577
• ISBN10: 0313381577
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-05
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

A call for the extension of hybrid learning urges that it become not just a quick fix or a boon for the bottom line, but an educational mode that reenvisions quality teaching and learning for the 21st century.

Author Biography

Jason Allen Snart, PhD, is associate professor of English at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL. Dr. Snart is the author of The Torn Book: UnReading William Blake's Marginalia. He earned his PhD from the University of Florida.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Method	p. xii
Terminology	p. xvi
The Resistant Early Adopter	p. 1
Challenges Facing Higher Education	p. 7
Managing Enrollment	p. 8
Scheduling and Classroom Space	p. 12
Aligning Learning Objectives	p. 14
Improving Student Retention, Success, and Completion	p. 16
Reaching Tech-Savvy Students	p. 18
Understanding Students, Technology, and Writing	p. 22
Assessing the Digital Divide	p. 25
Choosing a Direction	p. 28
Going Hybrid: The Bigger Picture	p. 29
Room for Innovation	p. 30
Retaining Students Online: What do We Know?	p. 33
Responding to Competing Pressures	p. 35
Our Media-Rich Environment: "Share Your Story"	p. 36
Convergence: Technology and Media Participation	p. 40
NYTimes Goes Interactive	p. 47
Pirates of the Caribbean Online: Convergence and Participation	p. 49
Hybrids: A Cultural Moment and Its History	p. 55
Hybrid Learning as Distance Education	p. 58
Diploma Mills: The New Shape of an Old Problem	p. 64
Where Might the History of Distance Learning Go?	p. 69
Hybrids in Action	p. 73
Defining Terms (Again) and Upfront Advertising	p. 74
Hybrids Across and Institution	p. 76
Ada Wainwright, Psychology	p. 76
Naheed Hasan, Psychology	p. 81
Mitchell Fisher, Economics	p. 85
Lois Stanciak, Education	p. 88
A Hybrid Program	p. 92
Master of Education in Educational Studies, University of Alberta	p. 92
A Student Perspective	p. 97
Emily Conradt, Graduate Student, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	p. 97
Variations on a Theme	p. 104
Lessons to Learn?	p. 108
Technology: Trending to Community and Collaboration	p. 111
Course Management Systems: Building Virtual Presence	p. 114
Blogs: A Public Sphere in the Classroom	p. 118
Wikis: The Art of Managing Collaboration	p. 120
Social Bookmarking: Sharing Content and Community	p. 123
Second Life: Real Learning in a Virtual World	p. 126
Exit Reality: The Social Web	p. 138
And Now, the Next Big Thing...	p. 140
A Resistant Early Adopter Argues for Hybridity	p. 143
The End?	p. 145
Appendix: At a Glance: What It Takes to Make Hybrid Learning Work	p. 147
Notes	p. 151
Index	p. 169
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