Designing and Teaching Blended Courses
11 Highly Effective Blended Teaching Practices
Findings of two surveys of Oregon State University hybrid course faculty on the effectiveness of blended teaching approaches.
Designing and Teaching an Effective Remote/Blended Course
An Oregon State University self-paced Canvas workshop on blended and remote course design and facilitation.
The Blended Course Design Workbook: A Practical Guide
An Excellent guide by Kathryn Linder takes the reader through a step-by-step process for blended course design.
Traits of Well-Designed Hybrid Course
Key elements of blended course design and pedagogy that are used in many Oregon State University hybrid courses.
10 Facts You Need to Know about Blended Learning
A concise set of evidence-based statements about blended learning along with links to the supporting research from Contact North.
Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository
A searchable compendium of peer-reviewed online and blended teaching strategies hosted by the University of Central Florida.
Open Educational Resources
Oregon State University Open Educational Resources Unit
Provides a variety of services for faculty who are interested in adopting, adapting, or authoring open educational resources.
Provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools.
A public digital library of open educational resources.
Research on Blended and Online Learning
Online Learning Efficacy Research Database
This database is a searchable resource of academic studies on the learning outcomes of online and/or hybrid education in comparison to face-to-face environments. The database has 267 citations across 75 discrete disciplines from 194 academic journals. The database is updated monthly.
Preparing Students for Blended Learning
Oregon State University Academic Success Center
Preparing Students for Blended Courses
University of Wisconsin-Madison Blended Learning Toolkit
University of Central Florida Blended Learning Toolkit
Facilitating Online Discussions
Stephanie Maher Palenque and Meredith DeCosta, Faculty Focus
Jean Dimeo, Inside Higher Ed
Netiquette: Ground Rules for Online Discussions
Peter Connor, Colorado State
Rubric for Asynchronous Discussion Participation
Barbara Frey, University of Pittsburg
The Art of Science of Successful Online Discussions
Stephanie Maher Palenque and Meredith DeCosta, Faculty Focus
Retooling an In-Person Discussion Strategy for Online Courses
Chris Lindberg, Oregon State University Ecampus
Flipped Learning
Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Washington
How to Make the Most of the Flipped Classroom
David Raths, Campus Technology
Myths and Facts about Flipped Learning
Robert Talbert, Grand Valley State University
Active Learning Increases Student Performance in Science, Engineering and Mathematics
Scott Freeman, et al., University of Washington
Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching
Standards for High Quality Blended and Online Courses
Oregon State University Peer Review of Hybrid Teaching Guidelines and Peer Review of Online Teaching Guidelines
Guides for OSU faculty teaching hybrid or fully online courses who need a peer review of teaching in these modalities. The guides are designed to help the instructor prepare for the peer review and to guide the peer reviewer.
Oregon State University Ecampus Essentials
Research-based standards used by Ecampus to design hybrid and online courses. All new and redeveloped Ecampus courses are expected to meet essential standards and are strongly encouraged to meet exemplary standards.
Oregon State University Online Teaching Principles
Principles intended to supplement the QM Higher Education 6th edition course design rubric and the Ecampus Essentials to guide effective facilitation of online and hybrid courses at OSU.
California State University Quality Learning and Teaching (QLT) Rubric
An evaluation instrument to help "support and identify exemplary practices for the design and delivery of online, blended, and flipped courses."
Open SUNY Course Quality Review (OSCQR) Course Design Review Scorecard
A rubric "for reviewing and improving the instructional design and accessibility of online courses based on online best practices."
Quality Course Teaching and Instructional Practice (QCTIP)
"A comprehensive scorecard which can be used for an in-depth review to validate instructional practices as compared to quality standards."
Quality Matters (QM) Higher Education Rubric
A detailed set of standards used to evaluate the design of hybrid and online courses.