Putting the Focus on Student Engagement in Blended Learning Courses

by Meg Gorzycki, Ed.D. Center for Teaching and Faculty Development, San Francisco State University Hybrid teaching and blended learning are fundamentally concerned with providing an environment in which students assume responsibility for seeing information and completing tasks necessary to understand the material. As students assume such responsibility, the instructor becomes less of a “sage on the stage” and more of a “guide on the side” (Caulfield, J. 2011). Like the effective face-to-face course, the effective hybrid course sets high expectations for student learning and manifests a strong alignment between student learning outcomes, assessments, and instruction. Student Engagement in the Hybrid Course Student […]