Managing Expectations

Chris Friend (@chris_friend)University of Central Florida

Courses in the 2000sOnline: Exciting Hybrid: Effective

Online courses started the conversation; hybrids won

support from research.

Practice has not caught up.

New Laws

Florida’s high-school students are required to

take one fully online course before graduation.

Meet the MOOC

MOOCs are newsworthy but uncommon for

traditional students.

Course Registration

Course Registration

Course Registration

Students use schedule and instructor reviews to

choose classes.

The Disparity

Teachers Students

Desired Flexibility

Needed Guidance

Source of Preparedness

class “meetings” weekly deadlines

converted instruction direct assistance

learning styles content types

Student/teacher expectations for online

courses differ drastically.

FYC students have no experience with hybrid

courses…

Course Content

Humanities Sciences

Online

Face-to-Face

processing/writing time

objective assessments

idea complexity/conversation procedural tasks

…however, students know what works for

them online. We should use that knowledge to

help inform DSP.

Student Needs

✤ More than an M✤ Guidance on Variation

✤ scheduling (by definition)

✤ content types (by student)

✤ teaching styles (by instructor)

Directed Self-Placement

Face-to-Face Online Hybrid

Scheduling vs Independence

Hard Sciences Humanities

Thank you.

Chris FriendTwitter: @chris_friendEmail: friend@ucf.edu

Gratitude: Visual Credits

✤ Color scheme (You are beautiful) by Sanguine on colourlovers

✤ “Cave troll contemplates God, financial accounting” by Kevin Dooley on Flickr; used by Jesse Stommel for MOOC MOOC

✤ Stormtrooper images from JD Hancock on Flickr:✤ Ill-Gotten (title slide image)✤ Invasion: Texas! (capitol

building)✤ The Dark Storm (Batman hybrid)✤ The Death Star plans are not in

the main computer (online learning)

✤ Imperial Art Appreciation: Black (Thank you sign)