I found a Hybrid Course at Oregon State University and the
only thing that was a bit different from the style of LIS 201 was that exams
and quizzes were taken online as opposed to in the lecture hall. Aside from
that, everything ranging from lectures consisting of videos to group activities
online was the same. This course taught me to become a bit more comfortable
publishing any sort of content online because I knew that it was going to be read
by several different people- inspiring me to put forth more effort and thought
into my works. Furthermore, I believe I was still a more effective student in
person because that style is more natural for me. I was able to learn a great
deal about the students in my class by reading their introduction pages and
their published works; something that is hard to accomplish in large lectures
where hardly anyone talks. Given our increased reliability on digital
technology, I believe a hybrid approach can, with enough time, become a more
effective learning and interactive tool-it will just take some getting used to.
Although I did not enjoy reading the articles for the sake of homework and
quizzes, I really enjoyed all the knowledge I attained from them. I learned a
great deal about the online community and how it functions as an entirely
different world, a virtual world, where almost everything done in person can be
done online. This understanding also allowed me to cut back on my social media
use because I feel that I sometimes I was “absent in presence.”
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