University of Massachusetts Amherst

Teaching Online & Hybrid Course Series

Session II: Designing a Hybrid Course

Presenter: Pamela Trafford, Isenberg School of Management

An online course component can make certain activities, like distributing course content, a lot easier. Beyond that, we can create a course that not only makes our face-to-face teaching more efficient-but hopefully makes it more effective. As you design (and redesign) your online course, you'll want to:

* Build a course that is clear and easy for students to navigate.

* Build a course that is easy to update, renew, and improve.

* Take advantage of features in the Learning Management System that are uniquely suited to helping you make the most of your face-to-face time.

* Take advantage of tools and techniques that allow more students to have more interaction with the content and with each other.

Pamela Trafford