Reading through some blogs and articles for a focus group on Blended/Hybrid Learning at my school, and I realized I better put down some thoughts before I lose track! I've noticed a few common themes so far, here's the first: Involve Students! This one seemed obvious to me at first, but it's more complicated than it seems. Depending on how you're looking at it, "involving the students" can take on different meanings. My first inclination was to think of this as a design problem (a big part of what I teach is design thinking). So I started looking around IDEO for resources on Human Centered Design and remembered this video on empathy . I think this is a fine starting point, after all we are designing structures and practices for humans, right? This is pretty open ended though, a good jumping off point but in need of some more specific direction. So then I looked to Jesse Stommel on Twitter because I know he has written a lot about "digital pedagogy...