1. New workshop! AIMON Learning Design Studio (synchronous experience)
2. Designing on the Edge: Teaching Smarter with AI (asynchronous experience)
3. HyFlex Course Design (both synchronous and asynchronous opportunities)
4. 3-Steps for Transitioning to HyFlex (asynchronous experience)
AIMON Learning Design Studio
A Guided, Synchronous Professional Learning Experience
A hands-on professional learning experience for faculty, instructional designers, trainers, and others who want to design thoughtful, practical AI-supported learning around authentic learner needs.
The AIMON Learning Design Studio is offered primarily as a synchronous design experience, combining live facilitated sessions, structured design activities, peer feedback, shared resources, and an optional individual consultation. Participants bring a real course, assignment, workshop, or other learning context and work through the AIMON design process with support from colleagues and the facilitator.
Note: If you’d like to arrange custom dates and times for a group of five or more, contact us. Group discounts are also available: Use the code HYFLEX15 for a 15% discount on orders of 5 or more, or use the code HYFLEX25 for a 25% discount on orders of 10 or more.
Keep in mind: The approaches explored in the Studio work well for courses and learning experiences delivered in any mode, not just HyFlex.
About the Experience
AI creates new possibilities for providing learners with timely explanation, practice, feedback, reflection, and problem-solving support. The challenge is deciding where that support is actually needed, whether AI is appropriate, and what parts of the learning process should remain with the learner and with other people.
The AIMON Learning Design Studio helps participants move from a broad interest in AI to a specific, reasoned learning-support design. Rather than beginning with a tool or platform, participants begin with an authentic learning context and ask:
Where do learners need support, and what form of support fits that moment?
Using the AIMON: AI in the Moment of Learning Need framework, participants identify a meaningful moment of learner need, examine current support, consider AI alongside human and non-AI alternatives, and develop an initial design that preserves learner thinking, agency, access, and human connection.
The Studio combines short introductions to the framework with individual design work, small-group consultation, peer feedback, and continuing resources. Participants also have optional access to the AIMON Design Partner, a custom GPT developed to support the design-thinking process without making design decisions for them.
The goal is not more AI.
The goal is better learning support at the right moment.
By the end of the Studio, participants will:
- Identify a meaningful moment of learner need and describe what effective support should help learners accomplish without replacing the thinking, practice, or judgment that produces learning.
- Evaluate whether AI is an appropriate form of support and develop a practical design that may combine AI, instructor, peer, and non-AI resources.
- Create an initial AIMON Design Sketch and implementation direction with clear roles, boundaries, and a manageable next step that can be tested or refined in practice.
Participants who complete the Studio activities receive one HyFlex Learning Community completion certificate: Designing AI Support at the Moment of Learning Need.
For more information, including upcoming dates and registration, select the AIMON Learning Design Studio item in the HyFlex Learning Store at https://hyflexlearning.info. Questions? Please Contact us for more information.
Designing on the Edge: Teaching Smarter with AI
A Flexible, Asynchronous Professional Learning Experience
A hands-on professional learning experience for faculty, instructional designers, trainers, and others who want to explore practical and thoughtful uses of AI in course design, student engagement, and learning support.
Designing on the Edge is offered primarily as an asynchronous experience, allowing participants to work through the learning activities, resources, examples, and design tasks on their own schedule. Custom synchronous sessions or group meetings can also be arranged for organizations or groups that want a facilitated experience.
Note: If you’d like to arrange custom dates and times for a group of five or more, contact us.
Group discounts are also available: Use the code HYFLEX15 for a 15% discount on orders of 5 or more, or use the code HYFLEX25 for a 25% discount on orders of 10 or more.
Note: The approaches explored in the workshop will work well for courses delivered in any mode, not just HyFlex.
About the Experience
AI is changing the way educators design learning, support students, create instructional materials, and respond to learners when they are working independently.
Designing on the Edge helps educators move beyond simply experimenting with AI tools. Participants explore how AI and generative AI can support explanation, practice, feedback, reflection, engagement, assessment, and instructional design, while also considering where human support or non-AI approaches may be more appropriate.
The experience is organized around a learner-first design approach. Rather than beginning with the question, “What can this AI tool do?”, participants are encouraged to ask:
Where do learners need support, and what form of support fits that moment?
Participants use the AIMON: AI in the Moment of Learning Need framework to identify meaningful learning-support opportunities and develop practical, responsible design responses.
The goal is not more AI.
The goal is better learning support at the right moment.
By the end of the workshop, participants will:
- Use AI tools to create, adapt, or recommend learning support that responds to meaningful student needs, especially when students are working independently or need timely help.
- Design effective and engaging learning activities or assessments using GenAI, including custom GPTs, while preserving student thinking, agency, and appropriate human support.
- Create or improve part of a course design or support toolkit with AI – something practical that can be shared with colleagues, tested with learners, or put into practice right away.
Participants who complete all workshop activities and assignments receive one HyFlex Learning Community completion certificate: Design for Learning with AI
For more information, including scheduling, select the Designing on the Edge: Teaching Smarter with AI item in the HyFlex Learning Store at https://hyflexlearning.info . Questions? Please Contact us for more information.
HyFlex Course Design Workshops (now with AI support)
The original (and classic) HyFlex Course Design workshop now incorporates AI tools and functions, especially GenAI, into each module to expand our support for you as you implement HyFlex for your students. Our revised workshop sessions will help answer questions like these:
- How can AI tools help plan, design, and build effective HyFlex courses?
- How can we use GenAI to engage students in all modes more intensively?
- How can we use GenAI assessment tools (beyond adaptive testing) to support both formative and summative assessment?
- And how can we help students better prepare for their HyFlex experience with custom GPTs helping them choose a mode and plan their studies?
Upcoming Schedule for Synchronous Participation:
Our next synchronous workshop experience is planned for January 11-15, 2027. Optional live sessions each day – recorded for later review – with online activities throughout the workshop. Fully asynchronous participation is always supported through the asynchronous version of this workshop (also found in the HyFlex Learning Community Shopify store). Contact us (hyflexlearning@gmail.com) if you’d like to schedule a custom workshop for your group (five or more). Specific times and pacing can be arranged for your group.
The HyFlex Course Design Workshop helps faculty and instructional designers implement Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex) instruction in their courses. Participants review effective HyFlex design and teaching practices, engage in reflective discussions, and draft an initial HyFlex course design, preparing them, in their own contexts, to:
* Develop a course plan enabling flexible student participation in multiple delivery modes (HyFlex).
* Revise a set of student learning outcomes for at least one HyFlex course.
* Identify existing and needed content resources for at least one course.
* Plan for effective engagement strategies that support meaningful interaction throughout a course.
* Implement effective assessment approaches that work well in all supported instructional modes.
* Plan for evaluating the impact of HyFlex delivery on student participation, achievement, and other organizational goals.
AI Support for Design – Workshop tools include six GenAI custom GPTs developed specifically to support HyFlex Course Design.
AI Support for Learning – Workshop activities and resources will also use multiple custom GPTs developed to support the learning process. Use of these tools will model effective practice for participants’ own course and workshop designs.
Participants who complete all activities and assignments receive a HyFlex Learning Community completion certificate.
Format
The workshop is highly interactive, combining information presentation, synchronous and asynchronous discussion of real-life cases, and reflective application exercises. GenAI custom GPTs are used to support planning in each phase of design; access to custom GPTs is provided in the workshop modules.
The workshop is hosted by the HyFlex Learning Community, and includes five sessions, normally scheduled over a one-week period. Each workshop session begins with a recorded overview discussion of workshop session content, accompanied by in-depth information and activities in the HyFlex Learning LMS, and concludes with application-oriented interaction among participants in an asynchronous discussion forum.
After the final live session, participants complete an application activity that asks them to create an initial plan for their first HyFlex course. Worksheets and sample high-level HyFlex course plans are available to support learners in this exercise. Participants who complete all activities and assignments receive a HyFlex Learning Community completion certificate.
After the workshop concludes, content, posted activities (containing the discussions and work of the participants), and all workshop resources remain available to support ongoing implementation and expanded faculty development efforts for a period of one (1) year.
To purchase a seat in one of our upcoming workshops, visit the HyFlex Learning store at https://hyflexlearning.info . Groups of five (5) or more from a single institution receive a discounted price. If you’d like to arrange for a special cohort of participants (such as a localized workshop for your institution), contact us directly: Contact
Asynchronous-only participation workshop format is available for start anytime and can be completed at your own pace. Select the HyFlex Course Design – Asynchronous item in the HyFlex Learning Store at https://hyflexlearning.info . Questions? Please Contact us for more information.
3-Steps for Transitioning to HyFlex with a new workshop format!
The 3-Steps for Transitioning to HyFlex is now offered as self-paced asynchronous instruction with rolling admission dates. You have up to 6 weeks to complete the workshop from the date you start the workshop. Contact us for more information or purchase workshop enrollment.
The problem
In 2020, HyFlex became the newest buzzword in education. HyFlex is not a fad. HyFlex design and delivery permit continuity of course delivery for when life happens for learners and teachers. Many teachers are hesitant to adopt HyFlex teaching and learning. They think or have heard that it is too difficult, too time-consuming, and struggle with the idea of working on a course without support or compensation. Yes, it does take time to curate or develop alternate, equitable activities. It does take time to add interaction and engagement to a course to which you are adding a different modality.
The solution
That said, this workshop shares a process for transitioning a course from one modality to another. The structure saves you time. You may attend as an individual, partner, or group. Developing with others as a team saves even more time and can lead to better product. This workshop applies to course development, not just transition. Using this process to develop for all modalities at one time is both efficient and effective.
The HyFlex classroom is not the same as Blended or Flipped
Discover the difference between HyFlex course design and the blended or the flipped classroom while crafting your own HyFlex lesson. Intentionally designed HyFlex courses are engaging and successful learning experiences. While the HLC’s foundational workshop, “HyFlex Course Design” provides a high-level overview of HyFlex and course design, this workshop drills down to the lesson level – the structure and flow of a HyFlex lesson. Start now transitioning your class for HyFlex course redesign one lesson at a time in advance of your next academic semester.
Who should attend?
Faculty creating their own HyFlex courses, instructional designers assisting faculty with HyFlex course design, and professional development staff will learn how to change a lesson from one delivery mode to another. Templates and rubrics guide the learning activities.
About the workshop
During this project-based workshop, you will experience the challenges of designing for multiple delivery modes offered simultaneously. You will use the following steps to create a bimodal, lesson:
- Document
- Review (& Revise)
- Complete (& Extend)
Creative Commons (reusable, shareable) rubrics and templates guide the project development.
Bonus
In addition to the three foundational projects, there are three optional activities to facilitate lesson planning, interaction, and engagement. Numerous just-in-time readings on course design topics are included in the workshop to help you develop your lesson.
Outcomes
In this workshop, you will:
- Populate a lesson planning template with the current activities of one lesson for one delivery mode.
- Use a rubric to review and revise the current lesson plan activities.
- Populate the lesson planning template for a different delivery mode.
The HyFlex Learning Community Course Quality Rubric (new in 2023!) is now an optional part of the workshop to help you review your lesson.
After the workshop concludes, content, posted activities (containing the discussions and work of the participants), and all workshop resources remain available to support ongoing implementation and expanded faculty development efforts for a period of one (1) year.
