City Tech Online

Policy for Teaching online & Hybrid Courses

Hybrid (H) courses at City Tech are any course wherein 33-80% of scheduled class meetings are replaced with online activities or virtual meetings. Online (O) courses are more than 80% online. Both hybrid and online courses need to be approved by the department Chair BEFORE the course is taught. Faculty must also provide the Chair with the dates they will be teaching the course online in advance. Here are some guidelines to follow to make sure students know a course is hybrid or online:

The Online Learning Advisory Council (OLAC) Presents:
A Monthly Express Series on Teaching Hybrid Courses

Each month during the spring semester, faculty from the City Tech Online Learning Advisory Council (OLAC) and Dr. Karen Lundstrem, Chair of OLAC, will present techniques, resources, and best practices on a specific topic that is relevant to creating hybrid learning spaces designed to deepen student understanding and increase student success. After the presentations, faculty participants will enter breakout rooms to explore how they might best use some of these techniques, or are currently using them, in their own classes. Participants will come back to the session to share their experiences, ask questions, and have further discussion on the topic.

February 18th, Friday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm: Use of video, including YuJa, and specialized resources, such as City Tech Writer, to improve comprehension in hybrid courses (as well as in-progress HyFlex). :
Professors Sue Brandt, Entertainment Technology, and Lucas Kwong, English
Meeting Recording: Zoom Link
Access Passcode: aL*5WD0z
OLAC S22 Video Hybrid Courses - Prof. Lucas Emile Kwong: YuJa URL Video Link
March 25th, Friday, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: A sea of dark screens: Keeping students active in Zoom and hybrid classes. A variety of tools and techniques will be shown, including using embedded questions in videos to assess students' attendance and participation in the asynchronous format of the class.
Professors Eugenia Giannopoulou, Biological Sciences (Bioinformatics), and Amit Mehrotra, Hospitality Management
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Sea of Dark Screens Presentation
April 28th, Thursday, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Blending synchronous and asynchronous modalities in hybrid courses across OpenLab and Blackboard platforms, and making use of rubrics to measure student outcomes in these blended courses.
Professors Mary Sue Donsky, Law & Paralegal Studies and Tanya Goetz, Communication Design
Meeting Recording: Zoom Link
Access Passcode: Ew&0y8pq
May 5th, Thursday, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Putting Labs and Internships Online:
Professors Nazanin Munroe, Business & Technology of Fashion, and Justine Pawlukewicz, Human Services
Meeting Recording: Zoom Link
Access Passcode: YkV%d9GB