diff --git a/teach_online/modalities.md b/teach_online/modalities.md index dd157f1..51152f4 100644 --- a/teach_online/modalities.md +++ b/teach_online/modalities.md @@ -146,11 +146,51 @@ but this is an incredible challenge for instructors. ## Hybrid -TODO +As can be seen in the discussion above, +fully in-person and fully online instruction each have their respective pros and cons. +As a wise little girl in an Old El Paso commercial once said about hard vs. soft tacos, +[*¿Por qué no los dos? (Why not both?)*](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/why-not-both-why-dont-we-have-both). +In a hybrid class, instruction happens both in-person and online. + +This mixture of in-person and online instruction can take many forms. +For example, depending on how it's structured, +an in-person {term}`Flipped Classroom` can be considered a form of hybrid learning: +after self-learning the topics prior to a given in-person class session +(e.g. watching videos or reading instructional text, solving quizzes, etc.) +and are then actively engaging with the course staff and their peers online before class +(e.g. self-scheduled face-to-face online meetings with course staff and/or peers, +asynchronous discussion board posts, etc.), +this could be considered a form of hybrid instruction. + +For me personally, +the COVID-19 pandemic forced me to learn how to broadcast an interactive classroom session on Zoom: +I have learned how to effectively use Zoom's features +(e.g. monitoring the Zoom chat, screen-sharing, annotations, whiteboard, polls, automated recording, etc.), +and I have brought those techniques into my in-person classrooms. +Specifically, in my in-person classes, +I broadcast my class on Zoom *while I am teaching in-person*, +and I actively monitor questions in the Zoom chat while soliciting in-person students. +I will talk more about specific techniques I employ in-class later in a later chapter, +but the result is that some students participate fully in-person, +some students participate fully online in a synchronous manner via Zoom, +and some students participate fully online asynchronously via recordings. ## HyFlex -TODO +I want to briefly revisit the following comment I made about my hybrid courses: + +> some students participate fully in-person, +> some students participate fully online in a synchronous manner via Zoom, +> and some students participate fully online asynchronously via recordings. + +Interestingly, these 3 categories of participation are not mutually exclusive! +On the contrary, *very few* students actually stuck to a single category for the entire course. +Instead, most students typically participated in a blend of all 3 categories: +sometimes attend class in-person, +sometimes attend class synchronously on Zoom, +and sometimes miss synchronous class but asynchronously watch the recordings. + +TODO TALK ABOUT HYFLEX ## Glossary