Outside In and Inside Out: New Hybrid Education Patterns

This paper describes six patterns of hybrid education. Hybrid education is a way of overlapping and blending different concepts at the same time, such as online and offline, formal and informal. The patterns focus on bringing experience from the outside world into the classroom (outside in), and gaining experiences outside of the classroom (inside out). The patterns are part of a larger pattern language for hybrid education. In this paper, we describe the patterns Open Hybrid Classroom, Bring Your Own Assignment, Integrating Practitioners, Runaway Classroom, Street Task, and Public Exams. All of these patterns open and extend the boundaries of the traditional classroom. The classroom opens up to the public. The public becomes a classroom. Learning and applying, as well as learning from applying, are encouraged by these patterns.