OU Professors/Researchers Clarissa Thompson and Michael Wenger talk about the changing learning landscape at OU, as well as colleges and universities nationwide.
The University of Oklahoma is offering classes in different formats in an attempt to better student's individual learning experience.
At OU they are offering traditional in the classroom courses, online courses and hybrid courses. Hybrid courses are taught partly in class and party online.
Clarissa Thompson, an OU psychology professor, is offering her course online and feels that it enables the students to learn better than a traditional lecture style course.
Michael Wenger, an OU psychology professor, said that lectures consisting of hundreds of students and traditional testing formats of a mid-term and final exam are not the best way to learn in some cases. He also mentioned that there is not a logical way to provide students in this highly enrolled courses with the benefits of better learning formats.
However, OU is increasing there totals of hybrid courses in an effort to help students have a better learning experience, especially when taking courses with hundreds of classmates.
These formats will only help students retain the materials better, while providing less boring lectures, Wenger said.
OU students can expect to see more hybrid and blended courses in the future in an effort to improve their overall educational experience.
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