Creating environments for learner-centered learning: Paving the way for hyflex The document discusses creating learner-centered environments and paving the way for hyflex learning models. It summarizes Learnlife's values of prioritizing learner well-being and maintaining relationships during the pandemic. The goal of hyflex is to allow learners to seamlessly shift between in-person and online learning. Key ingredients for hyflex success include learner-centered environments based on empathy, trust and respect. Learnlife is well-positioned for hyflex due to its learner-centered approach and flexible technology choices based on pedagogical needs. The pathway ahead involves further developing hyflex models and scenarios.

2. Creating environments for
learner-centered learning:
Paving the way for hyflex
Dr. Lisa Marie Blaschke
Learnlife
Barcelona, Spain

6. Learnlife
values

7. The pandemic
• 24 hours to go online with the learning guides (who were not trained in online teaching)
• “Flipped a switch and adapted to it” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWvF3_NcBdg)
• Priority: mental health and wellness of learners, maintaining relationships >> Real Talk
• Structure:
• Mentor meetings every week >> to re-engage and engage learners
• Learning guide (LG) check-in each day
• Learners setting own schedule and being self-directed (i.e., identify own peak working hours)
• Offline activities as much as possible and focus on community
• Family involvement and incorporation of home experiences and resources with online activities
• Challenges: lack of social opportunities >> constant iterations
• Technologies used: Google Suite of apps, Monday.com,
BaseCamp, Zoom, WhatsApp, E-mail, Miro

9. The goal of hyflex
“HyFlex” courses allow students to seamlessly shift between
attending class in person, joining in synchronously online, or
catching the class asynchronously later – and they can change
their mind, fluidly, from day to day.
Ken Steele (2020), http://eduvation.ca/2020/05/hyflex-learning/
Design principles: Learner choice, equivalency, reusability,
accessibility (Beatty, 21019, https://edtechbooks.org/hyflex);
lacks the ingredients of empathy, trust, and respect

10. Ingredients for hyflex success
• Learner-centered learning environments that promote learner agency
and are based on positive personal relationships characterized by
empathy, trust and mutual respect
• Self-determined and self-directed learners with teachers as guides
• Co-creation of learning experiences and pathways based on learners’
interests and passions (intrinsic motivation)
• Flexible and accessible technology choice based on pedagogical need

11. Why it works for Learnlife
• Learner-centered teaching and learning grounded in the research
• Paradigm: https://www.learnlife.com/learning-paradigm
• Learning methodologies: https://www.learnlife.com/methodologies
• Agile technology, selected based on need and pedagogical purpose
• Community (e.g., Alliance Network, https://alliance.learnlife.com/)
• Vision: Learners, schools, hubs, hublings, and communities connected
to created a global network of learning

12. The pathway ahead
Scenarios are fictional sets of alternative futures. They do not contain predictions or recommendations.
Imagining multiple scenarios recognises that there is not only one pathway into the future, but many.
Chapter Two provides an overview of strategic foresight, highlighting three main benefits: 1) to reveal and
test assumptions, 2) stress-test and future-proof plans, and 3) generate shared visions of the future to
support action in the present. The chapter sets out key steps for using the scenarios, including questions
for identifying implications and taking strategic action.
The four OECD Scenarios for the Future of Schooling
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Participation in formal education continues to expand. International collaboration and
technological advances support more individualised learning. The structures and processes
of schooling remain.
Traditional schooling systems break down as society becomes more directly
involved in educating its citizens. Learning takes place through more diverse,
privatised and flexible arrangements, with digital technology a key driver.
EDUCATION OUTSOURCED
SCHOOLING EXTENDED
LEARN-AS-YOU-GO
Education takes place everywhere, anytime. Distinctions between formal and informal
learning are no longer valid as society turns itself entirely to the power of the machine.
Schools remain, but diversity and experimentation have become the norm.
Opening the “school walls” connects schools to their communities, favouring ever-
changing forms of learning, civic engagement and social innovation.
SCHOOLS AS LEARNING HUBS