Category Archives: Hybrid Course Content

Avoiding Pitfall #5: Ignore the ways students learn from each other.

I think this is always a challenge when designing a blended course that has a substantial online portion.  In particular, my contents focus on how to code in statistical software R, and sometimes I find it difficult to promote student-student … Continue reading

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Avoid a common pitfall of hybrid course design: Insist on being the “sage on the stage”

The real pitfall of insisting on being the “sage on the stage” in a hybrid course is that the online portion of the course may become a “poor” replication of many excellent virtual learning sources that are readily available on … Continue reading

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Retail Math in a Hybrid Format

My course requires students to learn and apply retail math.  To avoid “Online Course Design Pitfall #4: Expect your students to consume knowledge rather than create it,” I plan to incorporate both content delivery and application activities (with “help” as … Continue reading

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One Health – course in a nutshell

“One Health” is a multidisciplinary approach to solving important health problems.  One Health recognizes that human, animal and environmental health are inextricably linked.  The multidisciplinary nature of the One Health approach requires that professionals are proficient in knowledge, skills, behaviors, … Continue reading

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A Hybrid Version of CH 607: Chemical Safety Seminar

Our students’ safety in the laboratory is our top priority in the Department of Chemistry. We are excited that starting this winter term we will be able to offer the CH 607: Chemical Safety Seminar course in a hybrid format, … Continue reading

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Take this class to win trivia night!

Bored flying cross-country?  Do long road trips in the car drag on endlessly?  After completing GEOG 102: Physical Geography, you will be fighting for the window seat on the plane or demanding that your friends to take the long route … Continue reading

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My hybrid course in a nutshell – Intro to Environmental Economics & Policy

My course is an introductory course to microeconomics with applications to the environment and environmental policy. The course focuses on solutions to environmental problems as seen through an economic perspective. Students will learn to use economic models and intuition to … Continue reading

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Adding an instructor’s blog

This post comments on how I plan to avoid one of Elizabeth St. Germain’s five pitfalls of online course design. St. Germain challenges instructors to not just upload the usual class handouts onto a website, but rather, to “Step back … Continue reading

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BA 354, Managing Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

I am creating a hybrid version of BA 354, Managing Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility.  This course is becoming a college-wide core requirement for all business majors starting Fall term 2017. As such, the course is going to fulfill the … Continue reading

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PH 205: Solar System Astronomy Hybrid course in a nutshell

PH 205 is a course that describes the content, structure and formation of the Solar system. It is the first of a three term sequence, where the second and third courses are PH 206: Stars and Stellar Evolution and PH … Continue reading

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