Reviews insights gathered from students and teachers working on f2f and hybrid versions of an outcomes-based first-year composition program at a large research university. Proposes an approach for directed self-placement that draws from student experiences and awareness, balancing them with teacher expectations for the courses. Text similar to the content presented with these slides can be found on this blog post: http://bit.ly/11uAhDl

1. Managing Expectations
Chris Friend (@chris_friend)
University of Central Florida

2. Courses in the 2000s
Online: Exciting Hybrid: Effective

3. Online courses started the
conversation; hybrids won
support from research.
Practice has not caught up.

4. New Laws

5. Florida’s high-school
students are required to
take one fully online
course before graduation.

6. Meet the
MOOC

7. MOOCs are newsworthy
but uncommon for
traditional students.

8. Course Registration

9. Course Registration

10. Course Registration

11. Students use schedule
and instructor reviews to
choose classes.

12. The Disparity
Teachers Students
Desired
class “meetings” weekly deadlines
Flexibility
Needed converted
direct assistance
Guidance instruction
Source of
learning styles content types
Preparedness

13. Student/teacher
expectations for online
courses differ drastically.
FYC students have no
experience with hybrid
courses…

14. Course Content
Humanities Sciences
processing/writing objective
Online
time assessments
idea complexity/
Face-to-Face procedural tasks
conversation

15. …however, students
know what works for
them online. We should
use that knowledge to
help inform DSP.

16. Student Needs
✤ More than an M
✤ Guidance on Variation
✤ scheduling (by definition)
✤ content types (by student)
✤ teaching styles (by instructor)

17. Directed Self-Placement
Face-to-Face Online Hybrid
Hard Sciences Humanities
Scheduling vs
Independence

18. Chris Friend
Twitter: @chris_friend
Email: friend@ucf.edu
T hank
you.

19. Gratitude: Visual Credits
✤ Stormtrooper images from JD
Hancock on Flickr:
✤ Color scheme (You are beautiful) by ✤ Ill-Gotten (title slide image)
Sanguine on colourlovers
✤ Invasion: Texas! (capitol
building)
✤ The Dark Storm (Batman hybrid)
✤ “Cave troll contemplates God,
financial accounting” by Kevin ✤ The Death Star plans are not in
Dooley on Flickr; used by Jesse the main computer (online
Stommel for MOOC MOOC learning)
✤ Imperial Art Appreciation: Black
(Thank you sign)