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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

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Our solution came about in the form of hybrid courses for students—a mix of asynchronous curriculum and regular, scheduled synchronous sessions. The Utility of Hybrid Courses. For those of you struggling to integrate fully online courses—or fully in-person courses—into your school models, consider this.

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Why combining assessments and LMS technology is essential

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Testing can help students better retain and recall what they studied, not only for the final exam, but as part of their overall educational development. Testing the use of Canvas quizzes in seven online courses and five hybrid courses, the researchers designed quizzes for each student and for each quiz attempt.

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Is Higher Ed Really Ready to Embrace Hybrid Learning?

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For example, colleges tend to maintain control of systems that are highly regulated (like financial aid) or highly academic (like recruiting faculty), according to Garrett, and they’re likely to outsource operations that require technology they don’t have (like exam proctoring) or that benefit from an outside perspective (like market research).

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As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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And so the online and hybrid courses these institutions spun up during the pandemic came with little of the scaffolding that experts recommend. Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding. It’s not getting them the answers when taking the midterm exam.

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Does Online Education Help Low-income Students Succeed?

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In contrast—and as was found in many studies—students were equally likely to complete a hybrid course, one that delivers both face-to-face and digital components—as to complete a face-to-face course. The report also showed that in other outcomes, too, online students were not as strong as their residential peers.

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Death of a Traditional Lecture

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exam scores increased post adjustments). Online and in-person delivery of upper division lecture courses in undergraduate life sciences degree programs leads to equivalent post-graduate degree outcomes. Hybrid courses with flexible participation: the HyFlex course design. For example, Ardissone et al. 3: 403-412.

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Death of a Traditional Lecture

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exam scores increased post adjustments). Online and in-person delivery of upper division lecture courses in undergraduate life sciences degree programs leads to equivalent post-graduate degree outcomes. Hybrid courses with flexible participation: the HyFlex course design. For example, Ardissone et al. 3: 403-412.