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Many of us are fast approaching one of our main holiday seasons, with all the joy, stress, and social gatherings that brings. At the HyFlex Learning Community, we are beginning to plan our next HyFlex Collaborative Conference for June 26, 2024. Hold the date! Your participation as a presenter and participant is encouraged. We expect to have our Call for Proposals out soon. (You’ll receive special notice of that release.) This year we are planning to have additional panel sessions and include more papers focused on current research. There are many ongoing studies with interesting findings to report.
This newsletter 1) announces our next "HLC Gathering" (webinar) on November 4, 2024, 2) summarizes recent HyFlex-related happenings "in the news", and 3) highlights recent HLC blog posts.
Upcoming Events:
1. HLC Gathering (webinar)
Next Community Gathering – November 4, 2024: Our next webinar is happening on Monday, November 4, 2024. Our topic will be “Assessing in HyFlex in a World with GenAI”. Glori Hinck, senior instructional designer at the University of St. Thomas and HyFlex Learning Community Advisor will explain the changes to assessment practices and expectations in HyFlex courses due to the growing use of GenAI tools and services. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hyflex-learning-community-gathering-november-2025-registration-1057132093549 The recording will be available at https://www.hyflexlearning.org/gathering-archives/ along with all the HLC Gathering recordings from the past three years.
2. HyFlex Learning Community schedules the next synchronous HyFlex Course Design Workshop
Our next synchronous workshop is scheduled for January 6-10, 2025. If you are interested in the details, see the HyFlex Learning Workshops page. If you’d like to discuss a custom workshop or a cohort workshop for your institution (with permission to reuse locally) please contact us: Contact
Note: The asynchronous-only version of the HyFlex Course Design Workshop is available year round for start anytime - finish anytime participation.
See https://www.hyflexlearning.org/workshops/ for details and the link to purchase registrations.
HyFlex in the News:
1. Beyond Borders: How to Make Online Global Collaborative Learning Work. Times Higher Education, Julie Lindsay
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/beyond-borders-how-make-online-global-collaborative-learning-work
In this very interesting report on the implementation of online global collaborative learning, "HyFlex learning" is mentioned as a skillset that supports this effort, with its emphasis on quality design for asynchropnous 9as well as synchronous) learners. When you have both a local and a remote set of students engaged in learning through collaboration, it certainly helps to have solid active learning designed for all modes. This article provides a wonderful summary of the major aspects of OGCL and key attributes and success facors.
2. Faculty at Bukidnon State University (Malaybalay City, Philippines) Meet to Design HyFlex Syllabi
https://buksu.edu.ph/2024/08/21/cot-faculty-recalibrates-syllabi-for-hyflex-modality/
Faculty members of the College of Technologies (COT) at Bukidnon State University (BukSU) held a two-day training workshop to recalibrate learning materials for the Hybrid Flexible (HyFlex) Modality in alignment with the university’s SMART Education vision offsite at a nearby hotel. The workshop sessions aimed to prepare faculty and enhance the teaching and learning experience of the students beginning HyFlex in the fall term.
Bukidon State University has been using the HyFlex modality for selected courses since Fall 2022.
3. Purdue Faculty Receive $900,000 Grant to Research STEM Problem Solving and Collaboration Skills
https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/newsroom/purdue-polytechnic-research-team-receives-900000-nsf-award-research-engineering-technology
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Purdue Polytechnic’s research team led by principal investigator Jin Wei-Kocsis $900,000 for an estimated three-year project: “Enabling Next-Generation HyFlex Field Laboratories through an Innovative Learner-In-The-Loop Multi-Robot System.” (Link to proposal abstract: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2418688&HistoricalAwards=false)
The project aims to “study the effectiveness of emerging artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics technologies” in supporting inclusive, scalable, and effective collaborative problem-solving (CPS) skill development in STEM education. The research questions are all situated in a HyFlex field-based lab environment. This is an example of the innovative research being conducted associated with leveraging the value of HyFlex learning in lab settings.
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