Hybrid Teaching: Flexible Strategies and Recommendations

This lecture, presented by the EPFL Hybrid Education Commission, explores scenarios for flexible teaching and learning, including lecture-based, flipped, hybrid, and blended scenarios. It provides recommendations to promote active learning, video recordings, asynchronous feedback, continuous assessment, open curriculum, and virtual labs. The lecture also discusses pitfalls and an action plan to enhance teaching quality. The commission emphasizes the importance of flexibility in course organization, active learning promotion, and the use of innovative teaching methods. It addresses the challenges of infrastructure constraints and increasing student numbers, proposing solutions to maintain quality while expanding. The lecture concludes with a call for feedback and highlights the need for teacher training, student support, and continuous assessment in the hybrid teaching environment.