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Stephen Downes

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Before it launched there was a chorus of warnings from experts that hybrid learning was a bad idea. Now this article is mostly anecdote, but it still seems to reinforce this warning. "Cases of students so completely and utterly lost in a virtual haze have become commonplace during the pandemic... the semester proved anything but normal—especially for those like me who taught in the hybrid format preferred by many institutions. Hybrid is an inherently flawed format for large classes, in which it is impossible to simultaneously manage virtual and in-person components."

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