Pixel International Conferences

2020 will be remembered as the Covid-19 year. Under these out of the ordinary circumstances, teachers and professors had to quickly adapt to finish the 2019-2020 academic year, and learn new techniques, and technologies to be ready for the 2020-2021 academic year. Different countries, states, or even institutions, had to make a choice about how we would return to the classrooms under this “new normal”; fully online, blended, or face to face (AKA mask to mask) were the main options across the globe. In this presentation, I will show how my institution moved towards a hyflex approach trying to keep our students in the classroom by dividing them into groups: half of them in class, half of them at home synchronously. Our faculty had to combine different teaching styles to accommodate the necessities of these different groups all together at the same time. Some content areas are easier to accommodate to this new normal, languages were a different beast. How did we provide differentiated instruction while making meaningful connections and aiming for communicative competence? I will present on my experience and how I survived the pandemic of 2020.

Keywords: Hy-Flex, Blended learning, CBI.

References:

• Barrett-Fox, R., Bayne, B., Cooper, V., & Espinosa, G. (2020). How the Coronavirus Pandemic Will Change Our Future Teaching. Religion and American Culture, 30(2), 147-186.
• Leijon, M., Lundgren,B. (2019). Connecting physical and virtual spaces in a HyFlex pedagogic model with a focus on teacher interaction. Journal of Learning Spaces, 8(1).