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HyFlex: Say what? Exploring the HyFlex online teaching modality

August 17, 2021

SCC DE Committee

Kandace Knudson, DE Coordinator

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Sign-in & eval sheet

atly appreciate if you would share the Sign-in/Eval form link with your participants during your workshop: https://inside.scc.losrios.edu/collegewide/professional-development-and-flex-forms/workshop-attendance-and-evaluation-form

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Hybrid

Flexible

HyFlex

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Definition (Educause)

Hyflex:

combines face-to-face (F2F) and online �learning. Each class session and learning activity is offered in-person, synchronously online, and asynchronously online.

Students can decide—for each class or activity—how to participate.

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Authoritative Guidance

WICHE/WCET Pursuing Regulatory Compliance for Digital Instruction in Response to COVID-19: Policy Playbook

(https://www.wiche.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Policy-Playbook-2020_WCET.pdf)

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HyFlex: Basic Definition

Hyflex learning is a pedagogical approach that combines face-to-face instruction and online education. Unlike hybrid or blended learning where all students participate in the same modality at the same time, hyflex courses allow students to decide if they wish to participate fully online or face-to-face. Students may switch back and forth multiple times during the course. (Van Davis, et al)

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Definition, Cont’d

Hyflex variations developed in response to the pandemic assign students to cohorts that alternate between attending face-to-face and online. (Van Davis, et al)

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Is this really “HyFlex”?

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Policy/Procedural Issues

  • What is LDA for HyFlex student?
  • Which modality is HyFlex? It’s not DE per Feds (Davis et al), or is it 2 modalities at once?
  • How do you describe it in the schedule?
  • How does apportionment work?
  • Should pay be the same (because you’re teaching in 3 modalities at once)?

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  • Like Telecourses of the past
    • attendance like DE course
  • technology requirements
    • on separate slide
  • Codes (LRCCD eliminated those telecourse codes)
  • different class cap (fewer students)
  • only “unicorn” classes

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Technology for HyFlex

  • What is required in the classroom?
    • Camera on instructor
    • camera/link to slides/computer
    • OWL/student microphone or just Zoom chat
    • Smart computer with Internet
      • fast computer with camera
    • Or minimal Telecourse tech, e.g. phone
    • engagement vs attendance: what’s mandatory?
  • What is required at home?
    • proctoring: is Proctorio an invasion of privacy? (academic integrity)
    • Engagement? Is it possible to verify? (yes)

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Workload issues

  • Regular class management
    • lots to manage, both online and in-person
      • higher expectations to engage with remote students via Zoom vs phone students in Telecourses
    • managing all participation in language courses
    • shift in asynchronous attendance may alter workload
    • more prep and work for in-person session AND synchronous online and asynchronous online
  • COVID-19 “management”
    • mask monitoring
    • cleaning awareness
    • bathroom monitoring
    • (social distancing)
    • shift in pedagogy to accommodate extra tasks?
    • added personnel to help monitor
    • an evolving scenario
    • possible shift in pedagogy based on precautions needed to mitigate spread/infection
    • specific equipment? (specific masks)
    • who sanitizes classrooms?

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Summary of issues/discussion

  • classroom management is important (what needs to be done re: COVID-10)
  • Telecourses may be a good starting model to adapt (but those were well supported)
  • some disciplines adapt more easily than others
  • academic integrity--how to ensure it in DE environment (ensuring adequate tech is helpful, e.g. chromebook/laptop)
  • flexibility of pedagogy & planning & adapting (community of practice!)
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“why would anyone do this?”

  • DE committee can and should help to establish best cases/best practice recommendations and supports for people who want to do HyFlex

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Resources

Hybrid-Flexible Course Design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes

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Brian J. Beatty (2019)

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https://edtechbooks.org/hyflex

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Resources

7 Things you Should Know about the HyFlex Model

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https://library.educause.edu/resources/2020/7/7-things-you-should-know-about-the-hyflex-course-model