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Workshops & seminars, Conferences & lectures

Teaching and Learning Winter Festival 2016: Engagement


Date & time
Friday, February 12, 2016
Speaker(s)

Dr. Isabelle Dostaler, Management & Professor Melanie Robinson, Assistant Professor, Management

Cost

This event is free.

Contact

Joanne Rankin, Centre for Teaching and Learning
(514) 848-2424 ext. 2495

Where

Faubourg Building
1250 Guy
Room 620

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

At Concordia and other universities, courses may be designed using a variety of instructional approaches. Examples of designs include, but are not limited to, more traditional classroom structures, online courses, and hybrid teaching. 

Recently, we have begun to use a hybrid teaching style in a section of one of the core undergraduate courses offered at the John Molson School of Business, namely, COMM 210 (Contemporary Business Thinking). Our study aims to examine the effectiveness of hybrid teaching, as one method that can be used by instructors for both engaging students and facilitating learning. We explore the perceptions, attitudes and behaviors of students who took a hybrid course, as well as of students who did not take a hybrid course. In addition to perceptions related to blended learning, we collected data on student engagement, student attendance, and overall learning (assessed as per the final grade in the course).

The study gave us the opportunity to learn more about the effectiveness of hybrid teaching, the degree to which are students are engaged, and reasons why students attend/do not attend classes. In particular, information on the latter points can help us to design more engaging classes that students look forward to attending.

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