Design and Assessment for Hybrid Courses: Insights and Overviews
This work addresses the challenge of integrating technology into education for educators and institutions, but it is incremental as it applies existing hybrid models to a specific course.
The study evaluated the conversion of a traditional face-to-face course to a hybrid delivery mode over five years, finding that the hybrid version performed at least as well as the original, with improvements in student retention.
Technology is influencing education, providing new delivery and assessment models. A combination between online and traditional course, the hybrid (blended) course, may present a solution with many benefits as it provides a gradual transition towards technology enabled education. This research work provides a set of definitions for several course delivery approaches, and evaluates five years of data from a course that has been converted from traditional face-to-face delivery, to hybrid delivery. The collected experimental data proves that the revised course, in the hybrid delivery mode, is at least as good, if not better, than it previously was and it provides some benefits in terms of student retention.