Higher education goes hybrid

By miranda.prynne, 16 September, 2021

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Online teaching has become a core component of educational programmes. In a hybrid world, academics must deliver effective blended teaching that engages with students in the classroom, as well as those learning via a screen. This collection offers advice on how to successfully manage hybrid instruction.

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By Eliza.Compton, 29 November, 2024

Creating flexible learning pathways for business students

African American student studying online

Digital transformation isn’t about technology – it’s about people, writes Steve Hill. Learning experiences must fit into students’ lives rather than forcing them to fit their lives around institutions

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4minutes

By Eliza.Compton, 16 October, 2024

Beyond borders: how to make online global collaborative learning work

As higher education strives to ‘reset’ in the age of AI to become more flexible, interdisciplinary, open, focused on real-world learning and with authentic assessment, curriculum-embedded OGCL is a key path to future-ready graduates

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4minutes

By Eliza.Compton, 1 October, 2024

Students as co-creators in online learning

Offering students paid opportunities to be involved in generating and modifying online learning content could deliver novel experiences for learners, reduce academic workload and help close the awarding gap

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4minutes

By Eliza.Compton, 27 September, 2024

Blended learning is the short-term fix that turned into a long-term stay

Black female student doing online education

Yes, the transition between online and in-person methods can make blended delivery challenging for students and educators alike, but keeping students engaged and sustaining their learning is worth the effort

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4minutes

By Laura.Duckett, 1 August, 2024

Nine tips for a successful, accessible blended learning field trip

Students sitting on the stairs of a university campus building

A guide to planning and implementing field trips that successfully integrate on-site and online students

By Laura.Duckett, 27 February, 2024

Use watch parties to enhance learning and build a sense of belonging online

Student on a laptop listening with headphones at home

An educator at the University of Manchester explains how using online watch parties with live chatboxes has enhanced students’ learning in a digital environment

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5minutes

By Miranda Prynne, 7 July, 2023

Co-pilots: a new way of improving hybrid teaching for everyone

A racing driver and his co-pilot in a simulation

Bringing in a ‘co-pilot’ instructor to support the running of hybrid classes can improve the teaching and learning experience for students and their lecturers, write Omar Merlo and James Eteen

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3minutes

By dene.mullen, 5 July, 2022

The 7 steps for designing activities in hybrid courses

Designing activities for hybrid learning can be difficult without following the correct steps

When planning a hybrid course, a main concern is how to design the activities in this still relatively unfamiliar format

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3minutes

By Miranda Prynne, 8 April, 2022

Classroom management strategies to enhance hyflex learning

A student learning online during a hyflex class session

Effective classroom management strategies that keep students engaged during hyflex courses, by Letitia Bergantz

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3minutes

By Miranda Prynne, 15 April, 2022

Hyflex learning: what, why and how

An image depicting hybrid or hyflex learning as a blend of online and in-person teaching

Hyflex programmes can extend higher education to a much wider pool of students, through flexible, accessible learning. Johnny Lee explains how institutions can roll out hyflex learning so staff and students feel the benefits

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3minutes

By dene.mullen, 13 December, 2021

Ten useful tips for teaching a hybrid course for the first time

Tips for university academics on how to transition to hybrid teaching

Laura Patricia Zepeda Orantes shares recommendations for delivering hybrid courses, especially for teachers who are new to this way of working

By miranda.prynne, 6 April, 2021

Guiding principles to support students on campus and overseas through hybrid teaching

Applying flexibility, inclusion and empathy to your hybrid teaching model for on-campus and overseas students

Markus Davis explains how three guiding principles of flexibility, inclusion and empathy have helped shape a hybrid teaching model that serves both on-campus and overseas students effectively

By miranda.prynne, 22 July, 2021

How to engage students when some are in the room and some are on Zoom

Tips on how to engage students when your class is split between those studying in-person and those learning via zoom

Flower Darby offers practical tips for keeping all students engaged when teaching a class in which some students are with you in person and others are learning remotely via a teleconferencing platform

By dene.mullen, 9 August, 2022

Rejecting hybrid conferences as the new norm reeks of ableism

Academic conferences need a hybrid future if inclusion is truly on organisers' agendas

Failure to offer a virtual component for conferences makes organisers complicit in a system that excludes particular academics, says William E. Donald

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4minutes

By miranda.prynne, 5 July, 2021