HYFLEX CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGY
TOOLS OF HYFLEX CLASSROOM WHO CREATED HYFLEX AND WHY? HyFlex was developed by Brian J.Beatty at San Francisco State University in 2005 to address the admission issues of students of Masters of Arts Program. It was aimed to reach students of various backgrounds and provide options in different participation platforms for the current students to attend the classes in curricula (Beatty, 2019). It was suggested to convert MA Program entirely online, however following were the hurdles faced by Beatty and his colleagues in this process; 1. Lack of institutional infrastructure 2. Lack of experienced online teaching faculty 3. Lack of support from already enrolled regional students The challenge to continue fully F2F program along with an opportunity to design it online seemed out of ken to achieve. An investigation on blended and hybrid models was carried out by Beatty and his team to verify the existence of already designed model in the mark...