{"id":74213,"date":"2021-02-18T11:37:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T16:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=74213"},"modified":"2021-02-18T11:39:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T16:39:20","slug":"teaching-why-the-term-hybrid-class-continues-to-confuse-mcmurtrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/02\/18\/teaching-why-the-term-hybrid-class-continues-to-confuse-mcmurtrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching: Why the Term &#8216;Hybrid Class&#8217; Continues to Confuse [McMurtrie]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/newsletter\/teaching\/2021-02-18?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Teaching: Why the Term &#8216;Hybrid Class&#8217; Continues to Confuse<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from chronicle.com by Beth McMurtrie<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-Styles-h2\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Hybrid Confusion<\/strong><br \/>\nWhy is it so hard to define a hybrid class? Or, rather, why is it so hard for colleges to describe it in a course catalog? That was the question that popped into my mind after seeing this chart,\u00a0<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinrmcclure\/status\/1358815687431577600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">tweeted out<\/a>\u00a0recently by Kevin McClure, an associate professor of higher education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinrmcclure\/status\/1358815687431577600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-74214 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DifferentFormats.png\" alt=\"A slew of different delivery formats...whew!\" width=\"75%\" height=\"75%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DifferentFormats.png 646w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DifferentFormats-150x130.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>But is it really helping anyone to define every possible permutation of &#8220;hybrid&#8221;? More to the point, what should colleges take into account when trying to balance specificity with clarity in course descriptions?<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching: Why the Term &#8216;Hybrid Class&#8217; Continues to Confuse &#8212; from chronicle.com by Beth McMurtrie Excerpt: Hybrid Confusion Why is it so hard to define a hybrid class? Or, rather, why is it so hard for colleges to describe it in a course catalog? That was the question that popped into my mind after seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,115,302,286,346,3,419,119,825,7,838,228,79,62,50,188,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blended-learning","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-digital-learning","category-distance-education","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-law-schools","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-preferences","category-liberal-arts","category-online-learning","category-teaching-learning","category-teaching-online","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74216,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74213\/revisions\/74216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}