SLOAN-C ONLINE WORKSHOP SERIES: Blended Learning: Using the “Hyflex” Course and Design Process
Links to important information about the workshop:
Key Information
Workshop Description
Workshop Schedule
Technology Information
Attendance Pricing
Panelist/Presenter Biographies
Registration closed.
Key Information
Total Minimum Length: ~ 5 - 10 hours/week
Start Date: Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 (Start of online activities and discussions; viewing recorded presentations)
Synchronous Date: Friday, March 28th, 2pm-3pm ET – Live session conducted in online meeting room
Resources Provided:
- Presentations and other workshop materials, viewable online until December 31st, 2008
- 1-hour Live Panel Discussion – Friday, March 28th, 2pm-3pm ET
- During the Panel Discussion – Participation in Live Q&A
- After the Panel Discussion – Viewing of Q&A Session until December 31st, 2008
Workshop Agenda at Glance
Activities begin Wednesday, March 19th. A live synchronous Question and Answer Online Session will be held on Friday of the second week, March 28th, 2pm-3pm ET. All activity is recorded, even the live events, allowing you to watch the events at a later date if you are unable to attend. All workshop content will remain available until the end of the year.
Workshop Description
Hyflex represents an approach to creating and managing blended courses that provides students even greater choices when trying to manage their time. Hyflex, (Hybrid/Flexible), allows a student to choose whether they will attend a F2F class, or complete the required work online for any particular class date. Hybrid – combines both online and face-to-face teaching and learning activities. Flexible – students may choose whether or not to attend face-to-face sessions … with no “learning deficit”. This workshop examines how to structure and deliver in a Hyflex environment: how to present the course effectively (and professionally), how to engage learners with generative learning activities and how to use authentic assessment to evaluate student learning.
Schedule
March 19th – March 21st Activities: Learn Moodle, the workshop's learning management system, and Elluminate Live!, the workshop's web conferencing platform. Watch recorded presentations and begin reviewing guest courses.
March 24th– March 28th Activities: Continue reviewing presentations and ancillary materials; participate in discussion forum with workshop facilitator, Brian Beatty.
A Live Web Conferencing Session is conducted on Friday, March 28th at 2PM(ET) (Online using Elluminate Live!): facilitated by Brian Beatty. We will begin the session with an open round of comments from the facilitator and then open the forum up for Q&A and/or presentations/show-and-tell from workshop participants. We will finish with a summary of thoughts from the facilitator. THE SESSIONS WILL BE RECORDED FOR LATERVIEWING AT YOUR CONVENIENCE.
Technology Information
Sloan-C brings you the following technologies to provide an exciting experience during the workshop:
 Elluminate™ Live! ™ -- Elluminate’s powerful Live! software will take this workshop to a whole new level of interaction. Well suited for the classroom environment, Live! provides the flexibility our workshop needs, from a speaker delivering to hundreds of workshop participants, to multiple small discussion groups occurring in unison. Live! effectively delivers lecture-type speeches, while also having the ability to facilitate collaboration among many individuals. For more information about Elluminate™, please visit the Elluminate page in the Sloan-C Vendor Corner.
 Moodle -- Sloan-C will use an open-source learning management system called Moodle to administer the asynchronous component of the workshop. Sloan-C has found Moodle to provide a flexible and user-friendly set of asynchronous collaboration and learning tools. As with most open-source technologies, the Moodle software is free, making it a very cost-effective software package for any institution or company. We have found though that low-cost does not mean that you have to sacrifice quality. Moodle still provides a robust environment that is dynamic, interactive, and provides cross-platform learner access through a standard web browser.
Attendance Pricing
Price: $295 Each
Individual/Premium Sloan-C Member price: $145 with coupon code* (That's a $150 discount! Find out how to become a Premium Member)
College Pass Member Pricing: Free with coupon code* (Find out how to become a CollegePass Member)
*This workshop is part of the Select Series and College Pass Members must use their additional 50 seats provided to take advantage of this workshop.
*(Individual Premium Members receive 1 discount with membership, Institutional Premium Members receive 20 discounts, and College Pass Members receive 150 "free" seats in the entire 2007 Sloan-C Workshop series.)
Presenter:
Brian Beatty, Ph.D., San Francisco State University
Brian Beatty is an Assistant Professor in the Instructional Technologies department at San Francisco State University, where he teaches courses in Instructional Systems Design, Distance Education, E-Learning Development, and Project Management. He received his Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University Bloomington. His areas of interest and research include exploring social interaction in online learning, developing and studying self-regulating behavior in self-paced e-learning courses, and developing instructional design theory for web-based and hybrid learning environments. Besides teaching in the Instructional Technologies MA program, Brian designs e-learning solutions for a wide variety of corporations such as HP, Microsoft, Eli Lilly and Co., Toyota, and the Chasm Group. Brian also conducts instructional design workshops for corporate trainers and higher education faculty. In past professional lives, Brian has been a project manager for an online teacher professional development program, a senior instructional designer and course director for Option Six, Inc. and UNext.com, a high school math, science, and computer educator, and a nuclear engineering plant manager for the United States Navy.
Cancellation Policy
If you register and pay for a Sloan-C workshop/seminar and are unable to attend, we will be happy to apply your payment to another Sloan-C workshop/seminar at your request. However, no refunds will be given. This offer is good for one year.
|
