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Permalink Reply by Maggie Beers on October 22, 2010 at 4:53pm

At San Francisco State University, some preliminary campus discussions have focused on the possibility of extending our method of HyFlex Course Delivery on our own campus, and to other campuses, a way to help facilitate graduation. Here's a brief explanation of this approach, which we would be happy to collaborate on with interested campuses.

HyFlex Course Delivery: Facilitating Graduation by Lifting Enrollment Caps and Increasing Student Performance

Shrinking budgets, growing enrollments, and a California State University-wide initiative to increase the rate of student graduation have prompted San Francisco State University to develop a comprehensive strategy around the delivery of hybrid-flexible (HyFlex) courses supported by SF State’s implementation of the Echo360 lecture capture technology and the Moodle Learning Management System. To further support this initiative, SF State has built an Echo360-Moodle integration, recently released to the world-wide Moodle community.

HyFlex courses provide students the choice to attend the lecture live in person, view the archived lecture captures online, or a mixture of both depending on the students’ individual needs and learning styles. As part of this strategy, SF State is targeting “bottleneck courses” which are preventing students from advancing to graduation, either because these courses are impacted and students can’t gain adequate access to seats, or because these courses present difficult concepts that lead to higher student failure rates.

To address course impaction, the HyFlex course delivery model enables the university to lift enrollment caps in impacted bottleneck courses because archived lectures can be viewed online, no longer linking course capacity to the physical capacity of the lecture hall. To help improve student performance in bottleneck courses with high failure rates, the archived lectures provided as part of the HyFlex course delivery method enable students to review difficult course concepts over and over, review lectures with peers in study groups, access lectures from prior courses for remediation, and review the first weeks’ lectures in cases where the students were enrolled after the start of the semester.

Regards,
Maggie

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Maggie Beers, Ph.D.
Director, Academic Technology
San Francisco State University
415-338-3613
mbeers@sfsu.edu
http://at.sfsu.edu

Permalink Reply by Moustapha Diack on October 27, 2010 at 1:11pm

I am looking forward to collaborative projects to further researches involving the usage and assessment of Virtual Labs. I know that CSU and other institutions are currently implementing these innovations. I wanted to see us develop and scale-up/research programs that will involve many partners. I am wondering if the Team at CSU could not take a lead on this.Campus tech has run a Blog on this subject in its last issue - http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/10/27/virtual-labs-augmen...