Designing an Aligned HyFlex Activity: the Teamwork Case

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This topic belongs to Lesson 2, step 7.

The case: a teamwork activity with one learning outcome and three very different experiences. In person, students form groups, negotiate roles and get immediate feedback. Synchronously, they are placed in breakout rooms with minimal guidance, no facilitator and no documentation. Asynchronously, they write an individual reflection about teamwork and never collaborate. Same outcome, inequivalent paths.

Choose an academic context you are familiar with (e.g., health, education, engineering). Imagine the teamwork activity taking place in that context. Analyse the case and redesign the activity using the checklist and the reflection questions in the lesson. Post five to six bullet points with your ideas, or a link to a two- to three-minute audio you host: the main alignment problem, how asynchronous students also collaborate, one UDL improvement, how strategies adapt to each mode without losing effectiveness, and how your redesign improves equivalency and alignment. Then read or listen to at least one peer response and comment on it.

How to reply so that it is useful

Read at least one other post before you write your own, and answer it in three short parts:

1. What works: name one specific choice in the post that would help their students, and say why.
2. What worries you: point to one place where a learner in a different mode, especially the asynchronous one, could be left out, and suggest a fix.
3. What you would borrow: one idea you will take into your own course, and how you would adapt it.

Post your own contribution as text in the message field rather than as an attachment, so that colleagues can read it without downloading. This is a practice task and it is not graded; the programme team reads every thread and replies where a discussion stalls.

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