1. Hybridizing Your Lab Course
David Angel Martinez, M.S. Ed.D.
Department Chair of Physics & Engineering
College of the Canyons

2. What is Hybrid?
Content delivery utilizing both on-ground and on-line teaching resources.
Content Management System (Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Etudes, etc.)
Videos (Instructor created, freely accessible media, publisher provided)
Typical hybrid course is split 50/50 with between online and on- ground content
Can be adjusted as instructor sees fit

3. Starter Questions Why go hybrid?
There may be content that an instructor delivers that may be better suited in an online delivery format
Ancillary material can sometimes cause lectures to be rushed or jam packed full of topics that have to be covered
Better online resources (OER, live chat, write over talk software, etc.)
Students are more open than ever to different teaching techniques

4. Concerns?
If you were to take your lecture/lab Physics or Engineering course and hybridize it, what concerns would you have?

5. My Course(s)
PHYSIC 221: Electricity & Magnetism for Scientists and Engineers
PHYSC 222: Heat, Waves, & Optics for Scientists and Engineers
100% on-ground class meets twice a week
3 hours each class meeting
Second meeting of the week is reserved for labs
The hybrid course meets once a week
One 3 hour class session
Each week a quiz and lab are administered.

6. My Styles 100% on-ground Hybrid (50/50)
Traditional lecture over PowerPoint
Video lecture
Problems detailed on whiteboard
Problems detailed in video lecture
Publisher animations
Content Management System
Groupwork
Groupwork is E.C.
Weekly quizzes
Weekly Quizzes
No HW
Mastering Physics HW
Demonstrations
No Demos (yet!)

7. Getting Started Have your lectures “canned” and ready to go.
“canned”, but still natural, as you would be in class
Get comfortable with your stylus/writing paraphernalia
Get comfortable with speaking into a microphone/headset
Find a video capture software system (Camtasia, Doceri, etc.)
You will probably have to get trained in the system unless you like to tinker around with software and figure things out yourself (like me)
Remember that mistakes can be edited out
However, too many mistakes will make editing inefficient and starting over is suggested
Practice, practice, practice.

8. Things to Keep in Mind
The course that you are hybridizing requires a Distance Learning Addendum
Mistakes will be made
You can edit them, but they also make you more relatable to the student
Keep the Powerpoints simple, yet informative, with enough space for you to write as you would in the classroom
Own your material and watch your pacing (too fast/too slow)
Recording/editing/uploading an hour of lecture typically takes about 3-4 hours of time
Plan your recordings out and don’t try to crunch them all in a weekend

9. Let’s take a look at some of my works in progress
.mp4 files uploaded to YouTube
Blackboard CMS
MasteringPhysics

10. Camtasia Basics
Recording and editing with Camtasia

11. Hybrid Expectations On a weekly basis, students are to:
View the video lecture at the beginning of the week
Play and review associated animations
Complete a MasteringPhysics HW assignment (due the following week)
Review the lab for the week (due in class)
Complete groupwork for E.C. (due the following week)

12. Does every student meet these expectations?
Of course not! But are they meeting expectations in the on-ground course as well, or is it because of the hybrid format?
Slightly lower performance compared to the on-ground course has been documented
Continuing to seek innovative ways to deliver hybrid content.

13. Fall 2016 course reorganization
The hybrid course is to meet twice a week, instead of once a week.
Each class session will be an hour and 20 minutes.
The first meeting of the week will be dedicated to quizzes, key topics with boardwork, and groupwork.
The second meeting of the week will be dedicated to lab
Each lab will be reduced to fit the time allotment