Hybrid-Context Instructional Model
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491_9781607524205
This book is a product of a dissertation project that was completed in December2006. This project investigated teachers experiences in relation to teaching and learningusing the hybrid-context instructional model. The dissertation itself has been noted as oneof the best in providing practical tips for teachers in this area. The study methodology isincluded as appendix B. To answer the questions raised during the interviews, the findingsof the study have been supplemented and supported with extensive literature review ofempirical studies to provide theoretical and practical solutions. The literature review drawsfrom total Internet, blended, and hybrid instruction studies. The literature on the totalInternet instruction has relevance in that the Internet piece of the hybrid-context course shares the same course managementsystems and requires the same approaches and principles as do total Internet instruction. The book discusses the conceptualand descriptive presentations of the hybrid-context model, media, applicable teaching philosophies; strategies bestaccomplished in each medium; various ways of linking the face-to-face and the Internet activities; the why and how thestudy participants transitioned into teaching hybrid-context courses, teachers expectations, etc. The discussion on labor oflove is the core of this book as the discussion has captured the surprises the study participants met in a way that is notreflected in the current literature. Built into this discussion are the amounts of things teachers had to learn in order tofunction well as hybrid-context model teachers. The contents of this book will aide teachers who teach in any way using theInternet. Therefore, any establishment/individual using the Internet for teaching andlearning will benefit from the contents of this book. Also, the administrators will findthis book a selling point to encourage more participation in the adoption of thehybrid-context instructional model as well as
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