“The Teaching and Learning Experiences of Faculty and Students During the Implementation of Hyflex Modality”

Abstract

The pandemic brought by COVID-19 has led to intense changes in the way teachers deliver their lessons and how learners participate in the discussion of the lessons. Jose Rizal University goes on full online teaching and learning modality during the first two years of the pandemic using the Canvas as its Learning Management System. For the school year 2022-2023, the school adopted the HyFlex learning modality. HyFlex sees teachers teaching students at the same time in a physical classroom and synchronously online through video-conferencing software. This study considers the learning experiences and perceptions of students and teachers from basic ang higher education. Hyflex learning. This study considers the learning experiences and perceptions of both educators and learners. The findings such as; strategic classroom setting must be explicitly planned and key enabling equipment must be considered to further enhance technology and classroom setting, more training must be conducted on Hyflex Learning -Teaching to address identified possible issues or challenges, and cogent guidelines must be provided to pupils for them to be aware of the norms in a HyFlex classroom will be used for the preparation of the full implementation of the Hyflex not only as a modality but as a pedagogy as well for the next school year.