Hybrid Courses

Honestly many of the courses I'm in this semester have some sort of hybrid approach, this one being very obvious, but lesser hybrid courses include my calculus class as well as my linguistic class. While both include written homework the is turned in each week, both also use online sources like Moodle and learn@uw for weekly online homework to be completed as well.

Regarding my personal experience with a hybrid designed course such as this, I'd have to conclude that while sometimes very frustrating, it's also extremely beneficial to the tech days we live in now. Preceding this course, I had never used or created a blog or wiki and so at times it was very confusing to upload, link, or constrain features especially without somebody to guide me through it at least once. However, after a couple of weeks I began to get the hang of things and become more comfortable with the online assignments we had each week. I think it's really important to have knowledge within these environments as I truly believe they will only continue to grow. As many readings have suggested, if you don't adapt you'll fall behind. So, while it's been a struggle and at times it's been even more of a nuisance at others I think it's really helped me expand from my comfort zone of solely paper-assingments. I think for this class, the hybrid coursework was very much needed as it brought the material of the class full-circle. But, I think for certain classes, caution should be approached when altering to a hybrid course as, at least in my eyes, technology should be appreciated but not overindulged.

Overall, some readings from the course packet as well as outside readings that I've encountered for this class have honestly been extremely relevant to the society we as humans live in today and it's been really interesting to learn more about technology which is so heavily prevalent in our lives. Certain readings were long and in my opinion, mundane and boring but for the most part, especially in the second half of the semester the readings were very easy to relate to and thus intriguing and beneficial.