Ready yourself for teaching hybrid courses!

Facilitator: Marcia Suter
Location: Online
Dates: October 13 - November 7
Registration: Register with CRN #38826

Note: This course is required prior to teaching a hybrid course for Chemeketa. It is recommended to those enhancing their courses with an online presence.

Goal Statement:

Begin the process of defining, designing, and developing hybrid courses and/or enhanced courses that produce significant learning.
We will approach this goal by:

• thinking about what others have been learning about hybrid and enhanced courses,
• experiencing learning with technology so that we can draw from our own learning experiences as we build online components into our onsite courses,
• identifying pedagogy compatible with hybridization and enhancement of courses' outcomes,
• building an action plan for hybridizing or enhancing an onsite course.

• tools to assess your own and students' readiness for e-learning
• an understanding of the range of characteristics associated with the integration of online instruction with onsite instruction
• new or refined skills in navigating an online learning environment and in using the discussion tool
• an expanded list of ways to enhance the onsite learning environment with online learning modules, discussion, and interactive group processes
• a commitment to being involved with a cohort group and its support of hybrid and enhanced course development across the campus
• a plan to build, assess, reflect upon, and refine a course that enhances and/or hybridizes an onsite course
• ideas to apply within your courses that support students becoming learners who flexibly adapt to a variety of learning environments

Who is facilitating this course?

I'm Marcia Suter and the facilitator of this course.  For those of you who might not know me, I've called Chemeketa my home since the '70s when I began work as an adjunct English instructor.  By '81, I had joined the English program as a full-time, continuing instructor. Over the years, I strayed from my program "home" a bit, teaching also in the education and speech programs, and playing out program chair roles for English, education, and speech at various points. 

In 1995, I participated in the first Summer Institute and was hooked by the promise of online technologies.  Since that time, I've developed, co-developed, and  taught a substantial number of online courses.  I also completed a Ph. D. program, with an emphasis on Online Teaching and Learning, at Capella University, walking in the bunny slippers of an online learner.  Today my position at CCC is to support  staff's professional development in the use of technology to enhance the learning experience of students.