Moving into the pandemic, education was on a straight–if somewhat predictable–trajectory. In truth, aside from pockets of innovation, much of education across the U.S. looked almost the same as it did 100 years ago. But as we know, the pandemic forced a move to online and hybrid learning. Some students and families loathed fully-online learning, be it asynchronous or synchronous, and jumped at the chance to return to school in a hybrid or fully in-person manner. Other students found that they loved online or hybrid learning, and that those modalities really worked for their families and their own individual learning needs. Now, four years out from the start of the pandemic-era online learning experiment, many students want hybrid learning options, while others don’t want to repeat the chaos of the pandemic. This begs the question: How do we implement programs that meet the varied needs of students and families while at the same time taking into account lessons learned from the pandemic? Stream Embracing the Hybrid Spectrum: Moving Towards a Student-Centered Future, from Monday’s ISTELive 24 session offerings, to hear from education experts and leaders as they discuss research and success stories around post-pandemic moves to hybrid leanring.
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