Introduction

Learning has evolved rapidly in recent years giving rise to the HyFlex approach; an innovative, disruptive, and necessary change in teaching and learning. We invite you, as a teacher, a course coordinator, a learning designer or other educational role, to reconceptualise your practice around online learning. This resource examines current pedagogical thinking around blended, hybrid, and HyFlex approaches to learning, with a view to rethinking and improving online learning opportunities and engagement for students.

The information and suggested activities in this resource may encourage you to think in different ways and apply new educational technologies. Your adaption and adoption of a HyFlex approach will likely be bespoke, based on clear attributes and general guidelines provided. Your success with HyFlex centres around what you discard from the past, embrace for the future and, above all, your determination to build accessible, equivalent and flat learning that provides for student choice and autonomy.

We have designed this book for you to read and interact with simply as a book or as a course. In the spirit of HyFlex this is your choice.

Authors

Dr Julie Lindsay – julie.lindsay@unisq.edu.au

Dr Lisa Jacka – lisa.jacka@unisq.edu.au