TITLE:
Hybrid Teaching during Covid-19—A Case Study of Public Universities in Kosovo
AUTHORS:
Rina Krasniqi, Arafat Shabani
KEYWORDS:
Hybrid Teaching and Learning, Covid-19, Public University, Kosovo, Case Study
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.13,
December
20,
2022
ABSTRACT: Hybrid
teaching is a complex approach of teaching and learning, which is a combination
of both face-to-face and virtual classes held simultaneously. This approach
began to be used massively during the global pandemic Covid-19 throughout the
world, which since March has become indispensable in Kosovo as well. More focus
was of course given to virtual classes, as people were not allowed to go out
due to Covid-19 restrictions. These distance classes created a situation that
was not stable for the education system in Kosovo and demonstrated major
educational challenges for lecturers and students. The purpose of this paper is
to analyse how higher education lecturers managed the situation with hybrid
teaching, how it was perceived by both lecturers and students, and which
teaching approach was more preferable by both parties. We have used the
qualitative method to retrieve data, and this was done by using a questionnaire
as a tool of gathering information. The questionnaires were distributed to a
number of 348 English majors, and 40 professors and teaching assistants from
three public universities in Kosovo.