Unhappy in our own Ways, Happier Together: Creating a Conscious Community through Hybrid Teaching
This presentation brought together data from both the student and faculty studies. After a brief overview of the study and timeline, presenters shared how how writing faculty in the study have sought to collapse the tensions between instructors and students in their hybrid courses by offering choices in how and when instruction and feedback is delivered; by disrupting the customer service model of teaching to instead create stronger communities of inquiry that bridge different modalities; and by providing the opportunities for student autonomy which allows them to recognize their agency in the learning process.
This collaborative panel included presentations from three contingent writing faculty:
- Presenter 1’s talk introduced the neoliberal pressures and burdens that both instructors and students face in writing studies courses.
- Presenter 2’s talk focused on how these pressures typically create tensions between students and instructors
- Presenter 3’s lightning talk highlighted hybrid course design’s capacity to alleviate these pressures and tensions.
Hybrid Teaching and Learning 