What is Hybrid Learning?
Hybrid learning combines in-person classroom learning with online learning or online attendance. Its focus is flexible attendance.
A class can continue through both physical and online modes, so it does not depend on only one way of attending.
Hybrid learning means students do not depend on only one mode of attendance. The class can continue through both physical and online methods, whichever the situation calls for.
For example, if students cannot reach school because of heavy rain, the teacher can run the lesson online. When the weather improves, students return to the classroom. This is hybrid learning, because the course uses both online and in-person attendance.
Hybrid learning = physical attendance + online attendance.
The focus is flexible attendance: the class can run in person, online, or shift between the two.
Hybrid learning comes in more than one form, and it brings clear gains when a class cannot all meet in one place. Two follow-on articles cover these: Types of Hybrid Learning sets out how it works in practice, and Benefits of Hybrid Learning explains why schools use it.
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