Hybrid Courses: The Best of Both

Minda Douglas, Nadene Keene, and Robbert Wildblood, Indiana University-Kokomo

When?

Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007
Noon-12:50 p.m. (Eastern Time); 11-11:50 a.m. (Central Time)

Where?

The conversations in this series are delivered via IHETS Interactive to multimedia meeting rooms and classrooms throughout the state. To become a host location, please contact Cheryl Denski (cdenski@ihets.org , 317.263.8984)

Session description:

The presenters will share their experiences with hybrid course design and discuss merging classroom and online environments to engage students.

About the presenters:

Minda Douglas has her MFA from Louisiana State University with a concentration in printmaking. She is currently a fine arts lecturer at Indiana University Kokomo, where she teaches drawing, painting, printmaking, and art history. She has exhibited prints, drawings, paintings, artist books, and installations regionally and nationally

Nadene Keene is an associate professor of English and co-director of the Learning Enhancement Center (LEC) at Indiana University Kokomo and received her PhD in Composition and Rhetoric from Illinois State University. Last year Keene began teaching two evening courses in the university's ACCELerated program, in which students meet in the classroom one evening per week and participate in an online class. She also teaches freshman English courses and a 300-level creative nonfiction course.

Bob Wildblood earned his PhD in counseling psychology at Purdue University and has been teaching a wide variety of psychology courses, as well as teaching interdisciplinary and learning community courses for more than 35 years. He has been teaching online, ACCELerated, and hybrid courses for more than 10 years. Over the past five years at Indiana University Kokomo, his primary focus has been on hybrid courses.