Sparking Excitement and Passion in Student Learners: Hybrid Teaching Strategies

1. Sparking Excitement and Passion in Student Learners:Hybrid Teaching Strategies • 2009 NCPEA Annual Conference Sherwood Thompson, Ed.D. Associate Professor Eastern Kentucky University

2. Connecting Professors with Students "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings." Shakespeare

3. Connecting Professors with Students • Turn on your personality and motivate students to desire learning • Change your teaching technique and your way of thinking about student learning • Students are a captured audience • Your job is to captivate the students’ attention • Grab their minds with your teaching style

4. Connecting Professors with Students • Release the old methods of teaching and proceed to use new innovative ways of teaching • Have fun with the learning process and take intelligent risks • Develop a constant stream of new ways of presenting knowledge • Establish better techniques, truer pedagogy, and more progressive ways of delivery

5. Connecting Professors with Students • Empower learners to idealize and determine for themselves the power of knowing • Motivate students, and inspire them to take responsibility for their own education Demonstrate to them that you are the coach, the purveyor of knowledge Ask students in your class to commit to being a partner with you in the learning process

6. Connecting Professors with Students Expectation • Caring • Support • Concern • Respect Achievement • Goals and Performance • Assignments • Evaluation High Achievement Low Initiating Expectation High A caring and supportive professor may improved student achievement by demonstrating high expectations and modeling a behavior of concern and respect.

7. Connecting Professors with Students “. . . one of the major tasks in teaching is not how to scare students into doing their homework, but rather how to nurture their curiosity and to use curiosity as a motive for learning. . . . “ Dr. Wilbert J. McKeachie

8. Hybrid Teaching The 21st Century is here. The real challenge that most professors will face is resources and the willingness to embrace new technology for classroom application. Utilizing hybrid models of instructional delivery is the future, today. Dr. Sherwood Thompson

9. Hybrid Teaching The hybrid teaching process is designed to incorporate the best techniques and advantages of F-2-F and digital technology Online course materials, blogs, twitter, texting, iPod, podcasting, digital textbooks, and computer PowerPoint presentations The hybrid professor uses a number of digital resources Real time communication between professor and students or delayed message delivery Fosters creative thinking and advance reasoning

10. Hybrid Teaching • Professors can soar to new heights using a mixed delivery method to introduce instructional materials to students • The spirit of hybrid teaching is to enable individualized learning to take place in a course • Students can be an active learner using podcasting, the broadcasting of digital files that can be accessed through the Internet and downloaded onto a computer or MP3 player

11. Hybrid Teaching • Pedagogy and podcasting will continue to be a hot button topic • Some faculty members believe that this technology will enhance and inspire student learning, other believe that F-2-F has the most impact • Hybrid teaching situations gives you both, F-2-F and digital interaction

12. Transformational Hybrid Learning Model • Responsible for raising students’ interest to higher levels of motivation & ethics. • Purveyor of knowledge • Encourages students to achieve higher goals Professor Student Engage in the learning process for the purpose of gaining new knowledge Conscious of each other’s role, usually pursue their own purposes & goals under the direction of the professor Thompson (2009) based on ongoing research conducted in hybrid classroom settings.

13. Hybrid Teaching Model Professor F-2-F Delivery Content Knowledge Technology Creative Endeavors Student Learning Outcomes

14. Hybrid Teaching Tools • Interactive surveys • eMails • Monitored chat rooms • Live web chats • Webinars • Online quizzes • SMART Boards

15. Advantages of Hybrid Teaching Sustainable Education: The ability to maintain more robust learning in a continual educational mode. Principles of Sustainable Education • Creates & Sustains Student Learning • Ensures Creative Thinking Process • Motivates Both Faculty & Students • Demonstrates Tech Competence • Focuses on Individual Student • Self-Sustaining and Engaging • Promotes Global Awareness • Promotes Excellence

16. REFERENCES Harris, K. (2008, October 16). Using social networking sites as student engagement tools. Diversity: Issues in Higher Education, 18, 40. Schmit, D. (2007). Creating a broadcasting empire. . .From the corner of your classroom. MultiMedia & Intenet@School, 14, 13-16. McKeachie, W.J. (1994). Teaching tips: Strategies, research, and theory for college and university teachers. D.C. Heath and Company, Lexington, MA Thompson, S. (2009). The role of professors in 21st century hybrid classrooms. Research observations and ongoing classroom investigational studies.

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