Managing Expectations
Chris Friend (@chris_friend)
University of Central Florida

Courses in the 2000s
Online: Exciting Hybrid: Effective

Online courses started the
conversation; hybrids won
support from research.
Practice has not caught up.

New Laws

Florida’s high-school
students are required to
take one fully online
course before graduation.

Meet the
MOOC

MOOCs are newsworthy
but uncommon for
traditional students.

Course Registration

Course Registration

Course Registration

Students use schedule
and instructor reviews to
choose classes.

The Disparity
Teachers Students
Desired
class “meetings” weekly deadlines
Flexibility
Needed converted
direct assistance
Guidance instruction
Source of
learning styles content types
Preparedness

Student/teacher
expectations for online
courses differ drastically.
FYC students have no
experience with hybrid
courses…

Course Content
Humanities Sciences
processing/writing objective
Online
time assessments
idea complexity/
Face-to-Face procedural tasks
conversation

…however, students
know what works for
them online. We should
use that knowledge to
help inform DSP.

Student Needs
✤ More than an M
✤ Guidance on Variation
✤ scheduling (by definition)
✤ content types (by student)
✤ teaching styles (by instructor)

Directed Self-Placement
Face-to-Face Online Hybrid
Hard Sciences Humanities
Scheduling vs
Independence

Chris Friend
Twitter: @chris_friend
Email: friend@ucf.edu
T hank
you.

Gratitude: Visual Credits
✤ Stormtrooper images from JD
Hancock on Flickr:
✤ Color scheme (You are beautiful) by ✤ Ill-Gotten (title slide image)
Sanguine on colourlovers
✤ Invasion: Texas! (capitol
building)
✤ The Dark Storm (Batman hybrid)
✤ “Cave troll contemplates God,
financial accounting” by Kevin ✤ The Death Star plans are not in
Dooley on Flickr; used by Jesse the main computer (online
Stommel for MOOC MOOC learning)
✤ Imperial Art Appreciation: Black
(Thank you sign)