Baruch student Sherry Cho shares her thoughts on hybridization, explaining how “keyboard courage” can help some students come out of their shell, and offering reasons for both hope and skepticism about the ways that technology can change the classroom.
Most of the hybrid courses that I’ve taken in the past have been bare bones replications of the classroom setting . . . basically just a posting board. I think that can have some purpose, to foster discussion, but that’s a really limited view of what hybridization can be.