Category Archives: Hybrid Course Design

Asian American Studies

The hybrid course that I’m developing is ES 231, an introduction to Asian American Studies I’ve been teaching for years. The course aims to provide students with some basic Asian American history and help them develop critical analyses of some … Continue reading

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Disney: Gender, Race, Empire

My course is a hybrid version of a more traditional course I designed about ten years ago at my previous institution, “Disney: Gender, Race, Empire.” This course emerged out of another course I taught: “Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality,” which was … Continue reading

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Introduction to Financial Accounting – Hybrid Version

I am creating a hybrid course for BA211 Financial Accounting.  This course is an entry level course for students interested in applying to the College of Business.  Many times it is the first business course an OSU student takes.  The … Continue reading

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Introduction to Political Theory: the hybrid version

I am developing a hybrid version of my course, Introduction to Political Theory (PS 206).  This is a fairly standard course, taught on most college and university campuses across the country.  There are typically  two main ways of organizing the … Continue reading

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Trying to Overcome Compartmentalization

I definitely have work to do in all five areas, but right off the bat, Pitfall #1 (“Upload your course materials, then call it a day”) really struck a nerve of recognition, especially in relation to how I have set … Continue reading

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Letting go of the belief that the way that I taught in the past was the best way…

Coming up as a graduate student I was never taught how to teach. I had to actively seek out my own information from seminars (which were hard to find) and literature about teaching and piece together my teaching philosophy from … Continue reading

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Letting go of “traditional” assignments

Something I’ve been considering with the development of a hybrid version of my course, “Disney: Gender, Race, Empire,” is letting go of some of the more traditional assignments I’ve often used– for instance, the final essay exam. In the face-to-face … Continue reading

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Common Pitfalls

I believe I succumb to two of the common online course pitfalls.  The first pitfall I fell into was #1 which I upload the course material and believed the course would take more care of itself.  I was a part … Continue reading

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Avoiding Pitfalls

Two of the pitfalls in creating an online or hybrid course are sticking to the role, as the instructor, of the “sage on the stage” and not utilizing ways that students can learn from each other.  As I begin to … Continue reading

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Mechanics of Materials – Hybrid

  Mechanics of materials, ENGR-213, is about how materials respond when forces are applied.   How much load can the rods holding up the stairs in Owen Hall actually support?   What diameter shaft is needed to transfer power from a 12,000 … Continue reading

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