Let’s analyze instructional strategies that work well online. Remember, face-to-face and online work should complement, extend, and elaborate on one another to enable students to stay focused on course content. Below are instructional strategies to consider integrating into your online course design.
- Assessing videos based on class concepts
- Discussions / blogs
- Group projects
- Online surveys
- Pre-class content delivery
- Reference Materials
- Virtual field trips
- Virtual labs
Engagement Within Online Environment
Too often the online portion of a hybrid course focuses on reading/watching something and participating in online quizzes. It is important to engage students in the online environment.
An obstacle that some instructors face, especially those with no prior experience with online/hybrid courses, is how to extend the classroom collaboration into the online environment. Throughout the online instructional technologies section you will find some tools that allow students to engage with one another and with yourself from a distance.
Your course design should seek learning options that personalize communication and collaboration while in the online classroom.