“All That Jazz”: Flexibility and Improvisation in Hybrid Writing Classrooms
This panel offered insights from our study of students in hybrid writing courses at a large, public R1 institution. Presenters discussed student interview data from 2023 that covers a range of topics from why students took hybrid writing courses to how different aspects of the course (e.g. the LMS, instructor feedback) supported their learning needs.
Panel presenters specifically focused on the following:
1. Flexibility’s paradoxical role as both a consistent motivating factor for hybrid course enrollment and a diversely utilized (and assessed) feature of hybrid course design
2. The hybrid format’s capacity to both manage and mismanage the anxieties and stresses inherent in time-intensive college writing and research
3. How students develop different types of connectedness to their instructors and classmates in hybrid courses partially based on the modalities being used
4. How students experience learning activities when these are not logistically suitable to hybrid writing classes.
Hybrid Teaching and Learning 