Course Content
Intro
This module aims to equip practitioners with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to facilitate hybrid sessions with stationary and remote participants at the same time in a variety of different contexts and settings. As was mentioned in a previous module hybrid learning offers plenty of benefits: more flexibility for teachers and users, accessibility for the various groups of potential learners, or affordability to enumerate the most important ones. At the same time facilitating workshops in a hybrid space can be challenging – in fact, the facilitator needs to conduct two parallel meetings – one for the face-to-face learners and one for an online group. It is worth underlining that hybrid spaces are not only about the technology that we use but also about communication between people, their behaviours, engagement, and motivation.
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SCOPE OF THE MODULE 2
Teams in Hybrid Spaces
This session aims to introduce you to team management in hybrid spaces. Safe Space: what is it? How to create a safe space in a hybrid environment? Informal communication – how to extend informal communication into hybrid spaces? How to integrate two ways of communication in hybrid spaces? How to transfer non-verbal communication in hybrid spaces?
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THEORETICAL PART
Safe spaces: how to create safe spaces in hybrid classrooms
Informal Communication – how to extend informal communication into hybrid spaces
Moderating Hybrid Activities
The aim of this module is to equip facilitators with the knowledge, competencies, and skills necessary to conduct hybrid meetings. In the previous module, you could learn about the importance of preparations and the power of communication. In this module, you will have to deal with three major challenges related to working in a hybrid space, such as maintaining motivation, engagement, and visibility.
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Moderating Hybrid Activities
Motivation
Engagement
Visibility
Monitoring Hybrid Collaboration
The aim of this module is to present the tools and good practices that will enable you to monitor activities and collaboration in the hybrid environment as well as create and read teams. It refers you to the previous modules and the content related to building and maintaining motivation and engagement. You will also get familiar with the term of the organizational culture which is the crucial element of the monitoring activities.
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Monitoring Hybrid Collaboration
Draft Lesson
Reading the Hybrid Room
What do we miss?
When teaching in a hybrid space, you will need to devote your attention to many different aspects and not lose sight of the main purpose of the meeting. This means that you may miss some important details.
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What do we miss?
Activities
Extra materials
Self-assessment
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9 questions to test your learning level
Engagement and teamwork in hybrid spaces
About Lesson

Most facilitators who have run hybrid workshops will say that while hybrid formats have potential, they are complex and come with challenges. 

First, consider the option of having two separate training courses – one for in-person participants and the other for virtual ones. Although it may seem more time-consuming, the participants’ engagement and satisfaction are what matters. There is a popular rule in some organizations – one remote/all remote. Organizing two different meetings may be  less complex, less time-consuming, and less frustrating both to participants  and to a facilitator. There may be more obstacles: technical issues, logical missteps, communication difficulties, and uneven engagement of both groups. On the other side – if you overcome the obstacles – you may create a diverse, inclusive, and highlymotivated hybrid environment. 

If you decide to organize a hybrid space, be aware that many different things may happen and it is impossible to be properly prepared for each of them. The only thing you can do (besides the solid preparation) is to react quickly and be as flexible as possible. Remember that you can always turn mistakes into lessons by acknowledging your mistakes, analyzing them, getting feedback, finding a lesson, implementing it, and reflecting on your progress. Practice makes perfect! 

 

ACTIVITIES 

 

It is obvious that during training our energy levels fluctuate – usually from the highest (at the beginning) to the lowest (the closer we get to the end). Participants working remotely, who need to maintain a higher level of concentration, are even more prone to a drop in energy. Watch your group closely and if you notice low energy levels, try one of these exercises for
a boost. Coffee and a short break can also help.

Remote: change three things

Not only is this exercise a lot of fun for all, but it can also help participants be more aware of others in the meeting, both in-person and remotely. Remote attendees switch off their cameras and change three things in their appearances. The in-person group does the same, either by switching off the cameras you are using in the physical space, or by walking (or ducking!) off-cam. Call out a person from one cohort to discover what has changed in the appearance of someone in a different cohort. Who are the keenest observers? (Source: Source: www.sessionlab.com) 

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