Expanding Accessibility of Learning through Blended Synchronous Instruction of Face-to-face and Remote Students

通过面对面和远程学生的混合同步教学扩大学习的可及性

• 批准号: 2110799
• 负责人: Nathan Mentzer
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2110799&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Expanding; Accessibility; Learning; through; Blended

This project aims to serve the national interest by optimizing a highly flexible instructional model that enables college students to participate in scheduled classes either in-person or remotely as needed. This model of instruction, called HyFlex, offers learners the option of participating remotely for a few lectures or the entire course and enables students’ participation mode to change in response to their daily needs. Although the Hyflex model shows great promise, its implementation in the US and globally as an emergency response to COVID-19 has proven challenging. The mass transition from traditional in-person classroom environments to online learning in March 2020 required STEM educators to design flexible learning experiences and reconceptualize student engagement and participation. This project has the potential to transform and improve the accessibility of undergraduate STEM education in a Polytechnic Design Thinking core course required of 1500 students each year. The project proposes to expand upon a 2020-2021 pilot implementation of Hyflex by studying active learning strategies in blended synchronous instructional environments. This project is designed to further define HyFlex as an educational model, optimize the approach, scale to 1500 students annually, and study the efficacy on student learning and sense of community. Lessons learned will be shared across campus (47,000 students, faculty, and staff) and nationally.The research team will implement literature-based best practices in HyFlex learning, use design-based research to optimize the HyFlex learning experience, and study its impacts. To investigate student learning and sense of community, the project team will use pre-existing data from a large-scale freshman core course gathered during traditional face-to-face instruction as a comparison to the proposed HyFlex environment. The project PI is the course coordinator for an active learning core Design Thinking course with 1500 students annually, providing an ideal course for this study. To manage quarantines dictated by COVID-19 protocols, the project team piloted the HyFlex model during the 2020-2021 academic year, blending face-to-face and online learners synchronously. Using Self-Determination Theory as a lens, the analysis of quantitative and qualitative pilot data suggests the model meets dynamic and rapidly changing student needs. This project will build on the 2020-2021 foundation, which also supports a rigorous study design. Two years of design-based research will iteratively optimize the HyFlex approach in 80 unique sections of the course, followed by one year of efficacy study using qualitative data to interpret quantitative results in a quasi-experimental nonequivalent comparison group design. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目旨在通过优化高度灵活的教学模式来服务于国家利益，使大学生能够根据需要亲自或远程参加预定的课程。这种名为HyFlex的教学模式为学习者提供了远程参与几堂课或整个课程的选择，并使学生的参与模式能够根据他们的日常需求而改变。尽管Hyflex模式显示出巨大的前景，但事实证明，作为对新冠肺炎的紧急响应，它在美国和全球的实施具有挑战性。2020年3月，从传统的面对面课堂环境大规模过渡到在线学习，要求STEM教育工作者设计灵活的学习体验，并重新定义学生参与和参与的概念。该项目有可能改变和提高理工学院设计思维核心课程本科STEM教育的可及性，该课程每年需要1500名学生。该项目建议通过研究混合同步教学环境中的主动学习策略来扩大2020-2021年Hyflex的试点实施。该项目旨在进一步将HyFlex定义为一种教育模式，优化方法，每年扩展到1500名学生，并研究对学生学习和社区意识的效果。吸取的经验教训将在校园内(47,000名学生、教职员工)和全国范围内共享。研究团队将在HyFlex学习中实施基于文献的最佳实践，使用基于设计的研究来优化HyFlex学习体验，并研究其影响。为了调查学生的学习和社区意识，项目团队将使用在传统面对面教学期间收集的大规模新生核心课程的预先存在的数据，作为与拟议的HyFlex环境的比较。PI项目是每年有1500名学生参加的主动学习核心设计思维课程的课程协调员，为本研究提供了一门理想的课程。为了管理新冠肺炎协议规定的隔离，项目团队在2020-2021学年试行了HYFLEX模式，同步融合了面对面和在线学习者。以自主决策理论为视角，对定量和定性试点数据的分析表明，该模型满足了动态和快速变化的学生需求。该项目将建立在2020-2021年的基础上，该基础也支持严格的研究设计。为期两年的基于设计的研究将在课程的80个独特部分反复优化HyFlex方法，随后将进行为期一年的疗效研究，使用定性数据在准试验性非等价对照小组设计中解释定量结果。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。通过参与的学生学习路径，该计划支持有前景的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Students’ Self-regulation in a HyFlex Design Thinking Course

学生在 HyFlex 设计思维课程中的自我调节

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: ASEE
• 作者: Mohandas, L.;Mentzer, N.;Koehler, A. &
• 通讯作者: Koehler, A. &

To Be Face-to-Face Today or to Be Remote Today: That is the Question

今天面对面还是今天远程：这是一个问题

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: AERA
• 作者: Mohandas, L.;Mentzer, N.;Koehler, A.& Farrington
• 通讯作者: Koehler, A.& Farrington

Autonomy, competence and relatedness in a HyFlex learning environment

HyFlex 学习环境中的自主性、能力和关联性

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: How to promote optimal individual and collaborative learning in remote and hybrid environments? A focus on motivational and emotional factors
• 作者: Farrington, S.;Mentzer, N.;Koehler, A.;Mohandas, L.;Aamir, A &
• 通讯作者: Aamir, A &

Instructor Presence in HyFlex Learning Environments

HyFlex 学习环境中有教师在场

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: FL.
• 作者: Koehler, A. A.;Mohandas, L.;Mentzer, N. &
• 通讯作者: Mentzer, N. &

The Effectiveness of Synchronous vs Asynchronous Modes of Instruction in an Online Flipped Design Thinking Course

在线翻转设计思维课程中同步与异步教学模式的有效性

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: 2021 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
• 作者: Mohandas, L.