Abstracts
Abstract
In the rush to save the school year during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, universities around the world had to react fast. This led to an emergency remote teaching that, in many cases, lacked the quality of online learning. Drawing on my concrete experience in graduate course design and facilitation using the hybrid-flexible course design model (HyFlex), also called “formation comodale,” I discuss the great potential and possible pitfalls of this model as an educational strategy in the context of the pandemic and the inevitable digital transformation of educational institutions.
Keywords:
- COVID-19,
- Hybrid-Flexible course design model (HyFlex),
- higher education,
- instructional design,
- digital transformation,
- online teaching,
- formation comodale,
- pedagogical transformation,
- innovative pedagogical approach,
- equity
Résumé
Dans l’empressement pour sauver l’année scolaire durant l’éruption de la pandémie de COVID‑19, les universités ont dû réagir rapidement. Cela a conduit à un enseignement à distance d’urgence qui, dans de nombreux cas, ne favorisait pas un apprentissage en ligne de qualité. En m’appuyant sur mon expérience concrète en conception et en facilitation de cours de deuxième cycle en utilisant le modèle de conception de cours hybride-flexible (HyFlex), aussi appelé « formation comodale », j’évoque le grand potentiel et les possibles écueils de ce modèle en tant que stratégie pédagogique dans le contexte de la pandémie et de l’inévitable transformation numérique des établissements d’enseignement.
Mots-clés :
- COVID-19,
- modèle de conception pédagogique Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex),
- enseignement supérieur,
- design pédagogique,
- transformation numérique,
- enseignement en ligne,
- formation comodale,
- transformation pédagogique,
- approche pédagogique innovante,
- équité
Appendices
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