Annotated Bibliography 2026.01.24

Yu Borui    2026.01.24

Annotated Bibliography 

This week, we have learned several learning modes, and I personally regard Hybrid learning mode as the most interesting one, that is why I mainly focus on Dommett and Detyna's article for this week's anootated bibliography. In this paper, I will write about Hybrid learning mode, the possible issues in it and he solutions.

Detyna, M., Sanchez-Pizani, R., Giampietro, V., Dommett, E. J., & Dyer, K. (2022). Hybrid flexible (HyFlex) teaching and learning: Climbing the mountain of implementation challenges for synchronous online and face-to-face seminars during a pandemic. Learning Environments Research, 26(1), 145–159. 

Detyna, Sanchez and Dommett introduced a university's case study of using Hyflex teaching mode. This mode allows both online and offline students to participate in synchronous seminar-style courses at the same time, this is a new teaching strategy to deal with the limitations caused by the pandemic. The article points out the potential structure of Hyflex teaching mode and has given suggestions to the future conductions of the mode. From my perspective, this mode has already become one of the most popular teaching methods, it provides convenience and efficiency to the class if used correctly and positively. Yet, there might be some problems, which should be carefully and critically resolved to make this mode a better tool for the class to enhance their acquisition.

Detyna, M., Sanchez-Pizani, R., Giampietro, V., et al. (2022). Hybrid flexible (HyFlex) teaching and learning: Climbing the mountain of implementation challenges. Learning Environments Research, 26, 145–159.

Detyna's research group also analyzed the application of Hyflex synchronous teaching during the pandemic period from the perspective of practical implementation, discussed the difficulties encountered in the layout of technical equipment, classroom acoustics, video interaction and tool configuration. And they have pointed out that these factors will lead to negative influences to the students' interactive experience and sense of belonging to the class. Indeed, these factors could be encountered in the classroom, such as onlince students can't hear the classroom discussion clearly, the classroom students can't hear the online students' speeches clearly, or the camera has a limited angle so that it cannot capture all the interactions. 

Guenther, K. (2013). Design thinking: A structured framework for innovation.

To resolve the problems in the Hyflex teaching mode, the article introduced several methods. I personally regard the Guenther's framework as the most direct and effective way to help deal with the issues from the teacher's perspective. It is essentially a structured problem solving and reflection model.  It contains 7 steps, the first one is Preparation. The core concept for this step is to set up psychological and environmental preparations to solve problems. The second step is to discover the problems, such as the unbalanced audio clarity. The third step is to define the problems, and this could be a crucial step in Hyflex teaching mode because a problem in this mode is always a negative mixing effect of technology, educational style and management. The educators need to focus on the problems based on the support of collected information. The fourth step is ideation. This step is trying to generate possible solutions, which requires teachers establish an open mind to come up with the real solutions that fits the students well. As for the last three steps, I would like to regard them as a chain. Testing-Implementation-Delivery, it can not only preview the possible outcomes of the solutions, but also can help apply the solution proposal in the educational environment in a systematic way, furthermore, it can give the educators a clear conclusion of the whole progress to know the good/bad aspects of the proposal, so that they can share the experience with their colleagues to expand the positive outcome.

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