TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast
Episode 71: Field Report #5: Finding Flexibility for F2F This Fall: The BlendFlex Approach
About Episode 71:
Many institutions will be offering at least some f2f instruction this fall. Kelvin and Tom talk through the details of one flexible approach for making fall f2f less disruptable: BlendFlex. This episode is the fifth in a mini-series of monthly “field reports” offering collegial advice in getting through the current era of “remote teaching” necessitated by COVID-19.
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Coffee Links
* Frequency Blend from Intelligentsia Coffee
Content Links
* In Inside HigherEd: "Introducing a New(-ish) Learning Mode: Blendflex/Hyflex" * From EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative: [Updated] "7 Things You Should Know About the HyFlex Course Model" * Free eText by Dr. Brian J. Beatty: "Hybrid-Flexible Course Design: Implementing Student-Directed Hybrid Classes"
UCF BlendFlex Resources
* "What Faculty Need to Know About the BlendFlex Model" * Video: BlendFlex for Faculty* "What Students Need to Know About the BlendFlex Model" * Video: BlendFlex for Students* Student-produced video from UCF honors students: "Important Things and Stuff: Class Modalities"
Just for Fun
Separated at Birth? Mirror Universe? Other TOPcast Podcasts
* TOPcast: This Old Pinball Podcast* The TopCast - The Official Music Teachers' Podcast* Topcast (A Spanish language weekly podcast about pop music news)
Extra Special Feature
* Video Version of This Episode! (Includes “at home” remote recording by Kelvin and Tom)