Organizational and managerial problems of blended and hybrid learning

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world; the educational system has altered too. The pandemic instantaneously transformed the traditional form of organizing and implementing education. The previously existing approaches to distance learning which involved using article-based learning resources have been replaced with a digital format. This shift required all participants involved in learning activity to have both appropriate digital competencies and specialized communication platforms in conjunction with libraries of digital resources. For the first time in history, education was delivered completely outside educational institutions, which required considerable effort on the part of educational organizations, parents, and students themselves to organize a remote workplace. For the first time in history, students and teachers were stratified in terms of their digital competencies levels and the feasibility of carrying out learning activity remotely. At the end of the pandemic, it is obvious that using only distance learning in any educational stage in impossible. This is due to not only a complete absence of approaches to regulation and requirements for a remote workplace, but also a lack of funding sources for its creation and functioning. Under these conditions, educational institutions have realized that the learning environment is not exclusively confined to their walls. Moreover, students and their places of study, stay, and residence are its cornerstones. All these factors require modern education to make fundamentally different efforts to ensure the operation of the system and going beyond its framework. First and foremost, the focus ought to be on a particular student’s needs and capabilities.