Category Archives: Hybrid Course Delivery

Albuquerque Inspirations: my peers excite me … and so do theirs

Greetings colleagues! I am writing this post from Albuquerque, NM, where I’ve been up to my elbows at the Southwest Popular American Culture Association conference this week. I presented my paper yesterday, and that’s the only excuse I can come up … Continue reading

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Pitfall narrowly avoided!

The last pitfall (Ignore the ways students learn from each other) particularly resonated with me.  The course I teach, ED 340, relies heavily on student-to-student learning as a way to support students with the classroom management piece of teaching.   It’s … Continue reading

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Creating through Active Learning

In 2011, I found myself standing in front of a room full of 2nd and 3rd grade students lecturing about digital storytelling. I explained the power of story, narrative, scripts, production and audience. There were a couple starry-eyed kiddos listening … Continue reading

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Sage on the Stage

Online Course Design Pitfall #3: Insist on being the “sage on the stage.” According to Elizabeth St. Germain’s article, “Five Common Pitfalls of Online Course Design,” she discusses how teachers, instructors and professors often teach using the pedagogy that they … Continue reading

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The Power of Doing Before Knowing

I find all 5 of the common pitfalls noted by Elizabeth St. Germain worrisome. I feel like I could read this list every day for a month and still inadvertently back into any one of these traps. Of particular interest … Continue reading

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Letting students learn from each other

Online Course Design Pitfall #5: Ignore the ways students learn from each other. The Statistical Genetics course will assess students based on weekly homework and a project. The homework will usually be in the form of code that will be … Continue reading

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Hybrid Showcase

I am a lover of podcasts and listen to many. After thinking about the best way to engage students in material outside of class and how most students are plugged in anyway when they walk around, I decided that I … Continue reading

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THE SMALL ANIMAL ULTRASOUND COURSE IN A NUTSHELL

Abdominal ultrasound is a crucial tool in the evaluation of the abdomen of dogs and cats with abdominal disease. It is increasingly critical as a veterinarian to be able to obtain high quality ultrasound images and be able to interpret … Continue reading

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H 513 – a monster of a hybrid course

H 513 Integrated Approach to Public Health comprises the common core of the MPH degree, something that used to be accomplished through 5 separate courses.  The H 513 learning objectives cover critical and interdisciplinary content in foundational areas of public health, … Continue reading

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General Human Nutrition (NUTR 225) in a nutshell

General Human Nutrition (NUTR 225) is a 3-credit course designed for non-nutrition majors. NUTR 225 addresses the relationship of food and nutrients to the promotion of health and fitness across the lifespan, with emphasis on the young adult. Current issues … Continue reading

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