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Record W4417141809 · doi:10.58459/rptel.2026.21035

Hybrid learning environments in higher education: A systematic review of emerging learning and teaching modalities

2025· article· W4417141809 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueResearch and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducational Environments and Student Outcomes
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Northern British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBlended learningModalitiesEducational technologyAutonomyCurriculumHybrid learningActive learning (machine learning)Synchronous learningLearning sciencesExperiential learning

Abstract

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Since the onset of the pandemic, hybrid learning environments have seen significant expansion to cater to diverse learning preferences across different domains. As educators become more familiar with these settings, they encounter challenges and opportunities. Hybrid learning must meet the needs of both in-person and remote students, ensuring fair access to educational outcomes. Our review reveals varied experiences among teachers adapting to these technologies and methods. From students’ perspective, hybrid learning enhances autonomy and self-directed learning as they navigate in-person and online modalities. It suggests that personal dispositions significantly impact student engagement more than peer interactions. Educators also need additional academic development opportunities to adapt curricula for hybrid delivery. Future research should continue to explore how to better support educators and students in these settings, focusing on optimising design principles for hybrid learning, enhancing digital tool integration, and developing personalised learning paths to accommodate diverse students and improve learning outcomes.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.030
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.496
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.030
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.450
Teacher spread0.413 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it