Category Archives: Integrating Online & On-Campus Learning

Creating a seamless student learning experience: merchandising math

In DSGN 472, Merchandise Planning and Control, students learn retail merchandising math at computational and conceptual levels.  Currently, content is delivered through a series of lectures paired with in-class activities.  Students apply what they learn through math homework assignments and … Continue reading

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Histopathology in Hybrid Format

Identification of specific disease processes is essential for the diagnosis, treatment and prognostication of health issues in patients of any species. Disease processes can lead to functional and/or morphological changes in tissues and cells of the body. Some of these … Continue reading

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H 513 – a monster of a hybrid course

H 513 Integrated Approach to Public Health comprises the common core of the MPH degree, something that used to be accomplished through 5 separate courses.  The H 513 learning objectives cover critical and interdisciplinary content in foundational areas of public health, … Continue reading

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Avoiding Pitfall #5: Ignore the ways students learn from each other.

I think this is always a challenge when designing a blended course that has a substantial online portion.  In particular, my contents focus on how to code in statistical software R, and sometimes I find it difficult to promote student-student … Continue reading

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Don’t ignore the ways students learn from each other when going hybrid

The face-to-face version of my course aims to allow students to learn from each other, rather than just from the instructor. This is accomplished by including in-class participation as ten percent of the final grade. Students are required to earn … Continue reading

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Enhancing student-to-student learning

Once I started looking for it, I began to experience the magic of students learning from other students in my in-person and online courses.  In our Integrated Approaches to Public Health course, we realized that we have a  unique opportunity … Continue reading

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One Health – course in a nutshell

“One Health” is a multidisciplinary approach to solving important health problems.  One Health recognizes that human, animal and environmental health are inextricably linked.  The multidisciplinary nature of the One Health approach requires that professionals are proficient in knowledge, skills, behaviors, … Continue reading

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Take this class to win trivia night!

Bored flying cross-country?  Do long road trips in the car drag on endlessly?  After completing GEOG 102: Physical Geography, you will be fighting for the window seat on the plane or demanding that your friends to take the long route … Continue reading

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Make it personal. Assignments that focus on individual growth and helping others

Online Course Design Pitfall #5: Ignore the ways students learn from each other.  I try to avoid this pitfall by creating flexible assignments that focus on personalized learning outcomes rather than specific assignment instructions. For example, I create fairly open … Continue reading

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Hybrid Milestone

Oregon State University now has 300 courses that officially carry the hybrid schedule type. These are blended courses that integrate regularly scheduled on-site classroom meetings with significant online learning activity that replaces regularly scheduled class meeting time. Hybrid courses are … Continue reading

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