Best Practices

• Vary activities throughout the session
• Allow a 5-10 minute break every 45 minutes
• Record the session for students who couldn’t connect

Strengths

• Allows students a chance to build community
• Good for answering questions and working through problems or examples
• Allows for guest speakers

Limitations

• Doesn’t accommodate varying schedules
• Students with technological limitations may not be able to connect
• Some students have privacy concerns

Best Practices

• Chunk lectures into short videos
• Create captions or transcripts for all videos
• Have clear communications, instructions, and class structure

Strengths

• Allows students a chance to consume content on their terms
• Students can revisit challenging concepts
• Students can’t “hide” - they must engage

Limitations

• Community building needs to be intentional
• Students often don’t get immediate answers to their questions
• Teaching can take more time

Best Practices

• Schedule the course around the strengths of the selected modalities
• Share a clear course calendar with students
• Design to meet learning outcomes, not to use specific tech

Strengths

• Students can consume content online on their terms
• In-person class time can be used for community-building, answering questions, and active learning activities

Limitations

• Requires students to balance the demands of both in-person and online learning
• Technological dependence
• Potential for overworking instructors