Online Learning Update

March 16, 2013

Hybrid courses add depth to education with technology

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:08 am

By Crystal Chilcott, The Scribe UCCS (U Colorado Colorado Springs)

Attend class from home without losing the classroom experience, take one class from several professors across thecountry and access diverse perspectives from one location. UCCS is using the Internet to provide more than what is offered in the average college class. Abby Ferber, a women’s and ethnic studiesprofessor, teaches Perspectives on Race and Ethnic Relations as a hybrid online and on-campus course. Her class alternates between meeting online and oncampus. During the on-campus meetings, studentscommunicate with students from the University of Rhode Island and Spelman College. The latter, based in Atlanta, is the one of the oldest African-American women’s collegesin the nation. “The interaction with Spelman College is the neatest part of the course. As a black women’s college in the South, it has a totally different environment, which is great for our students who maybe haven’t been exposed to that,” Ferber said. The distance course allows the professors to team-teach. Both professors at the other schools are African-American, and the Rhode Island professor is male.

http://www.uccsscribe.com/culture/hybrid-courses-add-depth-to-education-with-technology-1.2816467#.UT4nRhyG32s

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