While the enforced switch to online learning during the pandemic sped up the development of academics’ digital skills by several years, it also meant crucial stages in the transition to more hybrid learning – such as evidence-gathering and running pilots – were missed.
That is the view of the UK’s first professor of hybrid learning, digital innovation expert Simon Thomson, who has been appointed by the University of Manchester to help oversee the institution’s development of a new flexible learning strategy and carry out further practice-based research in this area.
