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title: "What Makes a Successful Flexible Course?"
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space: "Flexible Course Design"
author: "Ashley Ribbel"
created: 2025-01-15T14:13:36Z
updated: 2025-01-15T14:17:15Z
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# What Makes a Successful Flexible Course?

Brian Beatty, a professor at San Francisco State University, and a pioneer of this approach, describes four fundamental values that underlie effective HyFlex teaching. You can read more in his free online resource, Hybrid-Flexible Course Design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes \(2019\). A great place to start is to review the four fundamental values and consider how these can inform the design decisions that you make as you craft your course.

![Cover of " Hybrid-Flexible Course Design Implementing student-directed hybrid classes" by B. J. Beatty.](https://employees.senecapolytechnic.ca/attachment?file=BOS0v1KGh6pzXITbUobubA%3D%3D)
[Hybrid-Flexible Course Design: Free Online Book](https://edtechbooks.org/hyflex)

1. **Learner Choice**: Provide meaningful alternative participation modes and enable students to choose between participation modes daily, weekly, or topically.
2. **Equivalency**: Provide learning activities in all participation modes which lead to equivalent learning outcomes.
3. **Reusability**: Utilize artifacts from learning activities in each participation mode as “learning objects” for all students.
4. **Accessibility**: Equip students with technology skills and equitable access to all participation modes

By considering these four values, and trying to align your teaching practice with them, you will go a long way toward ensuring a successful Flexible course.

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