hybrid learning community of practice #1
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Hybrid Learning Community of Practice #1
Matthew Stranach
September 17, 2021
Land Acknowledgement
Thompson Rivers University campuses are on the traditional lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc (Kamloops campus) and the T’exelc(Williams Lake campus) within Secwépemc’ulucw, the traditional and unceded territory of the Secwépemc. The region TRU serves also extends into the territories of the St’át’imc, Nlaka’pamux, Tŝilhqot’in, Nuxalk, and Dakelh, and Métis communities within these territories.
Picture it… 2019
One view of The Pivot of 2020
2020 in a nutshell
• Movement from face-to-face to fully online.
• Emergency remote = transition to fully online.
• A wide range of institutional and individual narratives.
• Consolidated lessons learned in summer and fall.
• Characterized by experimentation; trial and error.
What was your Pivot Year experience like for you and your students?
Summer 2021: Trying to Get Our Bearings
Fall 2021: Back to Campus: A New Normal?
A Community of Practice?
• Share experiences and expertise
• Facilitate dialogue
• Enhance practice
• Prepare for what is next
• Service contribution: local, provincial, national
• Diversity of tech and pedagogy knowledge
Blended Learning
Blended learning is the thoughtful fusion of face-to-face and online learning experiences. The basic principle is that face-to-face oral communication and online written communication are optimally integrated such that the strengths of each are blended into a unique learning experience congruent with the context and intended educational purpose.
GARRISON & VAUGHAN, BLENDED LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 2008, P.5
Connecting Theory to Practice
Hybrid Defined
Curriculum is designed intentionally and thoughtfully to integrate F2F and online learning experiences. F2F teaching time is reduced, but not eliminated, with the balance of learning being facilitated asynchronously or synchronously through digital/web-based technologies, or offline learning opportunities. Typically, 50%-80% of learning outside of class.
*University of Windsor
Themes / Questions
• Location: where does learning happen?
• Ratio of online to face-to-face: amounts / how much?
• Types of online engagement?
• Types of in-person engagement?
• Thoughtful and intentional--- common elements
Where is the Research and Practice?
Towards national definitions?
Canadian Digital Learning Research Association (CDLRS)
Keeping It Moving
Approaches to CoP
• Monthly meetings: academic year 2021-22• What does this look like?
• Presentations? Lightning rounds? • Volunteers for this?• Tools; pedagogy; strategies; experiences
• Chats and discussions? • ETUG Slack; other?
• Asynchronous resources: SPLOTs; websites?
• Conferences and networking?• ETUG Fall Workshop: November 5, 2021
