SHIN Kimie
   Department   Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University  Education Development and Learning Support Center
   Position   Professor
Language Japanese
Publication Date 2022/08/20
Type Report
Peer Review Peer reviewed
Title Creating a Multicultural Collaborative Learning Experience Through
Hybrid (HyFlex) Classes: The Case of a Freshman Course
at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Contribution Type Joint Work
Journal Journal of the Japan Association for Developmental Education
Journal TypeJapan
Publisher The Japan Association for Developmental Education
Volume, Issue, Page pp.103,-114
Total page number 12
Author and coauthor ◎Misa FUDEUCHI  
Miki CUTTING
Kimie SHIN
Kumiko TSUTSUI 
Tatsuya HIRAI
Details This paper reports on an example of a first-year multicultural co-curricular course offered at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) that combines face-to-face and online instruction in a simultaneous, interactive, hybrid (high-flex) format, and clarifies the results and issues involved in its educational practice. The course is a PBL (Project Based Learning) type class in which students with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds are mixed together to conduct a project, and is a unique class utilizing undergraduate student teaching assistants. According to the results of the analysis of the class evaluation questionnaire for all students, the evaluation of all items in the hybrid type class in FY2020 increased compared to the face-to-face type class in FY 2019.