Hybrid Learning: The Perils and Promise of Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education
• Challenges readers to see hybrid learning for its long-term potential as a learning mode, not just as an easy fix to immediate challenges facing higher education• Shows how hybrid learning fosters student engagement, collaboration, and active learning• Discusses technologies that might influence hybrid learning, including fan fiction on the web,Survivorfan forums, ESPN'sSportsNation, andPirates of the CaribbeanOnline• Places the idea of hybridity in a broad cultural context, positioning it as a ubiquitous, rhetorically complex idea, not limited to higher education• Written in an easy-to-read, bullet-point style• Gives practical, real-world examples of the successful diversity of hybrid learning programs, drawn from the author's personal hybrid teaching experience and interviews with faculty and students• Includes specific examples of leading-edge applications, like the virtual world of Second Life and 3D web browsing with Exit Reality, which could inform successful hybrid course design• Provides interesting and relevant anecdotes throughout