Episode 71: Field Report #5: Finding Flexibility for F2F This Fall: The BlendFlex Approach

About Episode 71:

Many institutions will be offering at least some f2f instruction this fall. Kelvin and Tom talk through the details of one flexible approach for making fall f2f less disruptable: BlendFlex. This episode is the fifth in a mini-series of monthly “field reports” offering collegial advice in getting through the current era of “remote teaching” necessitated by COVID-19.

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Coffee Links

• Frequency Blend from Intelligentsia Coffee

Content Links

• In Inside HigherEd: “Introducing a New(-ish) Learning Mode: Blendflex/Hyflex”
• From EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative: [Updated] “7 Things You Should Know About the HyFlex Course Model”
• Free eText by Dr. Brian J. Beatty: “Hybrid-Flexible Course Design: Implementing Student-Directed Hybrid Classes”

UCF BlendFlex Resources

• “What Faculty Need to Know About the BlendFlex Model”
• Video: BlendFlex for Faculty
• “What Students Need to Know About the BlendFlex Model”
• Video: BlendFlex for Students
• Student-produced video from UCF honors students: “Important Things and Stuff: Class Modalities”

Just for Fun

Separated at Birth? Mirror Universe? Other TOPcast Podcasts

• TOPcast: This Old Pinball Podcast
• The TopCast – The Official Music Teachers’ Podcast
• Topcast (A Spanish language weekly podcast about pop music news)

Extra Special Feature

• Video Version of This Episode! (Includes “socially distanced” recording by Tom and Kelvin)