Board 102: Design and Development HyFlex Courses for Undergraduate Students

Abstract

HyFlex teaching is different from traditional face to face interaction. In the HyFlex modality student can join in the class in-person, online (synchronous) or can go through lecture notes and video in their convenient time schedule to meet the course goals and objectives. For online participants most of the communication involved through nonverbal methods like discussion forum, power point presentation, email and recorded video lecture. Adequate digital literacy knowledge is mandatory for students and faculty. Students should be self-motivated to be a successful learner. Through online discussions forum students will get more opportunity to discuss and will get more time to think/research about a topic. It is obvious students will expect that they will receive at least same or equivalent knowledge through online compare to face to face interaction. The purpose of this study is to addressed the issues related with HyFlex teaching such as i) Technologies requirement to teach HyFlex course effectively ii) Benefit and challenges involved in a HyFlex modality iii) How online students can get equal learning environment like traditional in-person students.