Hybrid teaching is understood as real-time teaching where student groups meet for the same teaching session in different ways. Most often, this means that some students participate from classrooms and some via the internet (possibly via another classroom).
Primarily, there will be two situations where you as a teacher must use hybrid teaching:
- The teacher is present in the classroom while some students participate via the online solution
- Teacher is present online while some students are in the classroom. Teaching in this situation depends on the teacher allying with someone who can assist with technical connection in the teaching room.
In some cases, it may be necessary to teach students in the classroom and online students at the same time. This increases the complexity considerably for all parties involved. Technological, organizational and pedagogical measures must be taken. Even teachers with a lot of experience from teaching and ICT, experience hybrid teaching as challenging. What can you do if you have to have hybrid education? Here are some resources that may be helpful.
Pedagogical recommendations
Hybrid teaching can be challenging as you have to focus on campus students, online students and technology at the same time. It is important that you plan your session well.
Communication: Make a clear clarification of expectations and share this with the students. If this form of teaching is new, it may be enough to concentrate on the presentation and the technical aspects of Zoom, and collect questions after the presentation. Alternatively, you can let us know that you take breaks in the presentation after a given time / topic, and then take questions.
As a result of the teacher having to deal with students in different places, it can quickly happen that a group experiences being downgraded, even if they are conscious of not doing so. One way to limit this can be to facilitate student activity.
Student activity: Find student activity that can include both the campus student and the online student. If you run group activities, try to divide the online students into groups in break out rooms, while the campus students work in groups in the classroom. If the activity involves short discussions with the peer, it may be easiest to ask the online student to reflect on the same question. Always consider whether both groups get a good benefit from the activity you are planning. Try to think of solutions where you also get the best out of having the digital opportunity. For example, student response systems such as Menti will be interesting and useful for both groups in the learning session, and a great opportunity for breaks and student activity. The same applies to the use of "Polls" which is a tool built into Zoom.
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It can be challenging to stay focused on chat and classrooms at the same time. If you are new to this form of teaching, it may be an idea to let the students know that you are collecting questions for after your presentation, ev. takes a break to answer questions.
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Clarification of expectations is important. Make it clear, or discuss with the students how the teaching should take place. For example, whether it is okay or not to chat while you are lecturing, whether it is expected that everyone should have a camera, when it should be open for interaction and dialogue, etc.
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When students first come to campus, it is important to take advantage of the added value this provides. It can involve increased interaction with the students, the opportunity for you as a teacher to spend time on clarification and reflection, etc.
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Try to facilitate student activity that includes both the online student and the classroom student. There may be interruptions with short queries using "polls" (which is a tool in Zoom).
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Give clear messages to students that follow online if you leave the screen and move around the classroom. It may be that you want to walk around a bit while the students work, but that you want to follow the chat as well.
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Repeat questions so that everyone can hear.
Technical recommendations
Hybrid teaching requires a little more of you as a teacher in terms of technique and facilitation. If you know that you are going to have hybrid teaching, you should try to book an online classroom. Molde University College has several such at each building as well as at HiKSU. These rooms are designed to teach online, with video and audio / wireless microphones and table microphones available in the classroom. If it is not possible to book one of these rooms, it is a good idea to bring a webcam and headset, or your own laptop. Then you will be able to set up the equipment so that the camera can show you or the classroom (or both), and you will have good sound. With such a solution, you should be at the machine as much as possible, and not move around the room (as you would like with wireless microphones).
The teaching session must be run through a video conferencing tool. At the University College, we use Zoom for this purpose. All students and staff have a Zoom user, and there are good resources on how to get started. When you run a teaching session through Zoom, there are some things you should be aware of. If you share your own screen with campus students, it is important to remember that what the campus students see in the teaching is not the same as what the online student sees if the teacher shares their own screen. The online student sees at all times only what you choose to share, while the campus student sees the canvas, blackboard, the online students (if you share the participant photos), etc.
Equipment in all our classrooms
1.All our classrooms are suitable for online teaching and are equipped with cameras, microphones and sound systems that are connected to a desktop PC. You then log in to the PC in the classroom, start Zoom via Canvas and check that the sound and image in Zoom are correct. (Equipment in the online teaching room only works with a desktop PC in the room, when using your own laptop, audio and video image will not be available).
2. Follow the instructions in the classroom to turn on the projector, turn on the camera, and select the section and turn on the headband microphone.
3. Sound - microphones
As a lecturer, you can put on a headband microphone so you can move freely in the room (check the camera section to see how much you can move before you get out of the picture). For questions from students in the classroom, it is perhaps better to recommend that the lecturer repeat questions during the corona period, so then no more students need to touch the microphone.
4. Picture / videoOnline education rooms have a camera installed in the back of the room. The cameras in the classroom can be controlled from the remote control on the catheter, and you can zoom in and out, set the camera up and down and to the sides to select the section you want.
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5. Sound in the classroomAll online classrooms are equipped with speakers, so you can get sound out of your PC and out of zoom. This allows students who follow online to unmute themselves to chat and ask questions. But we recommend writing questions in chat.
6. Zoom client is installed on all computers in the online classrooms. Use Canvas to log in to zoom.
