Hybrid Course Development Program

Faculty Support and Benefits

Participating faculty will receive in-person, and online professional development, primetime priority scheduling in Fall 2018, accessibility and technical assistance, stipend, and learning material grant.

Each faculty member will receive the following support and benefits:

• Multi-day in-person trainings facilitated by CETL Instructional Designers (4 meetings)

• Paid Quality Matters (QM) Designing Your Blended Course (DYBC) online professional development (valued at $150). 

• ​Priority scheduling in a prime-time teaching slot (9:00 am – 3:00 pm) during Fall 2018 semester 

• Assistance ensuring the accessibility of instructional materials (e.g., captioning of online videos) 

• Assistance with Canvas and other educational technology tools 

• Provided Canvas course template to help structure the redesigned hybrid course  

• $1,200 stipend upon successful completion of the full program

Application Process 

Please review the following applicant and course selection criteria as well as steps to complete before applying.

Pre-Application Steps

Assess your readiness to design, develop, and teach a hybrid course. Before applying, complete the readiness survey. Results of the survey will be used to tailor professional development delivered to faculty.  

Faculty should be familiar with essential Canvas features and have completed the following CETL workshops before applying: (1) Getting Started with Canvas and (2) Canvas Online Activities and Assignments. Please visit the CETL website to view the workshop schedule. 

Consult with your department chair to ensure the proposed course has been approved for the hybrid format, and that your department plans to offer two sections of the course during Fall 2018.  (NOTE: Your department chair and associate dean will be copied when you submit your application and will be consulted prior to the application selection stage.)  

Eligible Applicants

All faculty and departments are eligible to participate with priority given to faculty willing to teach two sections of the redesigned hybrid course during the same time block in Fall 2018. 
Priority will be given to faculty who: 

• Have completed both Getting Started with Canvas and Canvas Online Activities and Assignments workshops at CETL before application submission. 

• Propose two sections of the same course to be taught in the same block with their online components on opposite days (e.g., Section 1: face-to-face Tuesday 12:15-1:30 pm, online Thursday; Section 2: face-to-face Thursday 12:15-1:30 pm, online Tuesday). 

• Propose high demand courses that would benefit from multiple sections offered during a single term

Other time-block configurations may be considered if proposed in complementary pairs.

Preferred Courses 

Preferable courses include: curricular bottleneck courses (i.e., high demand/low student success courses), facilities bottleneck courses (i.e., courses where classroom resources /space limits the number of students who can take the course each term), GE courses, and large lecture sections. 

Department chairs must indicate their intention to schedule the instructor’s redesigned hybrid course(s) in Fall 2018. 

Course Pre-Approved for Hybrid Delivery 

Proposed courses must have an approved Course Modification or New Course Proposal Form indicating the course may be delivered as a hybrid. When applying, please provide this form by uploading it with your application. When discussing your proposed course with your chair, ask them for a copy of the Course Modification form.