HYBRID LEARNING IN PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS AMIDST PANDEMICS

Arguably, recreating virtual space has been a slow-developing concept to many skeptical creative media communities and scholars. With the rapid growth of new media technologies, analogue or digital, society must exercise critical thinking in how these realizes the former impossibilities. Contemporarily, technologies are embedded in our everyday life, and yet we were not certain if these strongly transformed us. Unexpectedly, the COVID-19 pandemic radically disrupted every aspect of life, including education, and as a result educational institution demanding for new systems and structures that ensure uninterrupted learning for all students. We were forced to modify our activities, and it is a fact that many struggles and postponed. It is an entirely diverse challenge experienced by creative media educators. The direct hands-on instructions needed to be converted to live and/or recorded virtual simulation. Countless educational institutions have experimented with a hybrid learning approach to deliver teaching and evaluated their learning outcomes. In this article, I will share my experience in hybrid learning for one of the visual communication design courses, specifically photography.