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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 OpenAlexaff
Pei Jun See, Ben Kei Daniel, Joyce Hwee Ling Koh

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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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.038
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.049

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.038
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.004
Bibliometrics0.0110.012
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.004
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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