HyFlex is not what we need (for Fall 2020)
HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) is a way of designing courses for (what I call) ultimate flexibility. It takes both ends of the teaching spectrum, fully face-to-face, and fully online-asynchronous and it bridges the gap. Back in the day, I learned about this model of course design by taking an OLC workshop with Brian himself, but you can learn more about the model in his free ebook . I liked the model at the time (and I still do), because it gave more options to learners in the ways they wanted to participate in the course. They could come to class, they could participate online synchronously, and they could just be asynchronous, or a mix of any one of those depending on the week. Quite a few people on twitter, including @karenraycosta, were pondering whether they don't like HyFlex (in general), or the implementations of HyFlex that we are seeing. Heck, It seems like HyFlex has become the white label flex model for universities because some of them are creating their ow...