Lost no more…Instruction and Holidays Academic calendars on the surface are pretty straight forward. Fall classes start late August/early September, end in December; spring classes start in January, end in May; summer classes start in May, end in August. However, even the most intentional academic calendar has occasional shortened weeks due to planned and unplanned […]
As we moved to emergency remote learning last year, it became evident that the digital divide was wider than we knew. Importantly, we learned that it was not limited to our learners, but also applied to our faculty. Although Delgado Community College first piloted HyFlex in 2015, we did not have enough HyFlex adoption at […]
In October, 2019, I had yet to encounter the topic of HyFlex in the educational podcasts I was listening to at the time. Due to the pandemic, this is no longer the case. People are talking about HyFlex. You’re probably talking about it. You might even be offering HyFlex delivery without realizing it. This is […]
The need for increased access to high quality, equitable access to learning at all levels of education has never been greater. Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex) learning environments support students, faculty, and schools in providing excellent learning experiences in both classroom and online settings, and allow students the choice of participation mode. The HyFlex Learning Community will help […]
The earlier posts in this blog were originally published on Dr. Beatty’s HyFlex World blog from 2010 – 2016 with a few posts from 2019-2020. Many of the ideas presented in these posts became part of the “HyFlex Book” published online (and free!) in 2019 – Hybrid-Flexible Course Design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes.
We’ve all been living through an incredible experience in 2020 with CV-19, shared globally and across all layers of our social systems. Essentially our entire education system has been disrupted by the need to avoid unnecessary physical contact for months at a time, and for most of us, this has meant moving all instruction fully […]
Just released October 23, 2019 at AECT 2019 Convention in Las Vegas – an open access book summarizing years of practice (aka design research) into combining online and classroom college students in the same classes, and turning control over participation decisions to students. Special thanks to many collaborators over the years, and especially to our […]
Originally posted on April 6, 2016 by Brian Beatty On April 21, 2016, I will be joined by six colleagues on a panel presentation describing the hybrid flexible (HyFlex, in my terms) approaches our respective institutions are implementing to meet the specific needs and desires of our constituents. Here I provide a brief summary from the panel presentation […]
Originally posted on February 15, 2013 by Brian Beatty If you are considering using the HyFlex approach in courses or programs, you are probably completing some sort of feasibility analysis before moving forward with detailed design, development or implementation. A careful analysis of needs, benefits, and costs is important. What questions should your feasibility analysis answer? (see the assess_need_hyflex (linked […]
Originally posted on December 14, 2012 by Brian Beatty We recently surveyed students in the Instructional Technologies MA program at San Francisco State University, and found that students once again report that they appreciate the flexibility offered by the HyFlex course design. No surprise there; its the most consistent “finding” in surveys, end of class evaluations and anecdotal reports we […]
