Hybrid Flexible Class: A Professor’s Guide to Hyflex Teaching
How to conquer teaching during a pandemic
We have to recognize that educators have responded amazingly to the abrupt shift to online teaching. Of course, it hasn’t been easy, but in general terms, it all worked out pretty well.
I mean, we were agile.
We adapted and effectuate with the resources we had at hand and tried to continue providing our very best to our students. Other organizations couldn’t adapt that well. Many just closed down and went out of service.
We can criticize as much as we like, but let’s admit it, educators adapted fast. Chapeau.
However, we were reacting to a first-in-our-times pandemic. It caught us unnoticed. We had no choice. Adapt was our only option.
Now is time to prepare for the new normal. If we can call it normal.
A second wave of the pandemic is just around the corner. In the U.S. and South America, we are still struggling to control for the first wave.
So, no matter how much we miss our students and classrooms, we have to come around the idea that remote learning will be our new normal.
But we need to be prepared. If we want to keep our sanity and that of our students, we can’t…
