1.2: Lane Online Guidebook

What's Online vs. Hybrid?

What's Online?

Online classes at Lane have traditionally meant classes that have 100% of their content offered through the Internet. Most of the time, that means that course content, interaction, and grades are handled through Moodle, our Learning Management System. Online courses have an additional course fee for students ($10- per credit, capped at $50- per course) that supports online course development.

At Lane, we use a set of best practices built into the SUNY Online Course Quality Review rubric (OSCQR) as the basis for development and training. These standards are based on research into online teaching and learning, and many echo practices that good teachers use no matter where they're teaching, whether in person or online.

What's Hybrid?

A hybrid course offers at least some portion (we do not have a set percentage) of its content and interaction through online means. Usually, this has meant that the class has one or two scheduled in-person meetings each week, though now that we've worked with a variety of modalities, there may be some new creative solutions to how hybrid courses are scheduled and function.

It's important to understand that hybrid courses require interaction and engagement both online and in-person; a course that only posts resources or readings online, or that uses Moodle as an assignment dropbox, would not qualify as a truly hybrid course. Hybrid courses are also expected to use the OSCQR as a model for course building and delivery.