When properly implemented, a hybrid learning model is naturally student-centered. Students have more opportunities to manipulate the way learners engage by incorporating technology and allowing for flexibility in time, place, and quality of learning. Simultaneously, it can be easy to let student-centered learning fall out of sight while tackling the complexities that come with implementing new technologies. Hybrid classrooms are about providing students with the guidance they need at the moment and in such a way that it keeps the students interested and inspired. Therefore, they're all about student-centered learning.

So, how do we ensure that our hybrid learning model holds students at the center of teaching, regardless of the challenges? There is no clear response, but it's well within reach if we're comfortable introducing technology in the classroom and secure in our relationship with our students. Here are a few tips for maintaining or maximizing student-centered learning in your hybrid classroom: 



Meaningful use of Technology

In your hybrid classroom, one of the best ways to let student-centered learning fall away is to incorporate technology in a way that it does not make learning more important than it was without technology. No matter what model you use, flipped classroom, station rotation, or whole group rotation become purposeful in the way you use technology within the hybrid learning approach. You may be using digital resources to make learning more flexible and accessible to students by enabling them to post online or access recorded lessons from home. Or, maybe you are pursuing real-world implementations of core principles through practice without technology that are not feasible. Student needs, in any case, should be what drive design for learning and the tools you choose.

Collaboration and Leadership                                                                     

If you have selected a rotational model to practice digital learning, you are already making choices that bring student-centered learning to the forefront of your hybrid classroom. Small group preparation which are led by technology and assisted by instructors, places students in the driver's seat, empowering them to effectively solve problems and interact with peers. Learning is student-centered when it offers effective educational resources and sound academic material and at the same time it also encourages students to use these tools to explore content in a way that reflects their strengths and interests. Experience in teamwork and leadership that goes hand in hand is also an added benefit for career preparation.

Flexibility of the role

Many teachers use online collaboration tools in their learning approach, which allow for activities such as discussion boards and peer editing. Teachers can give students the opportunity to mentor their peers, provide input on their work and carry out complex group projects. Bringing student-centered learning to your integrated classroom can create time and opportunity for students to try out new roles and explore learning or work in ways that go well beyond the initial information transfer.

Student Voices

The last way to integrate student-centered learning to your hybrid classroom is simple: give your students a space to express their voices and listen carefully to what they have to say. Online learning also allows those students to speak who don't feel comfortable in speaking in the class. It is an alternative way to express their opinions, and gives all students the time to add their voices to a comprehensive knowledge in a constructive way.

Conclusion

In this precedent time, where children are involved in blended learning. It is essential to incorporate student-centered learning in our blended learning approach to make the students motivated, engaged and active in teaching-learning process. This way they will explore new ways and strategies to improve their learning skills. As educators, we should always provide students with numerous opportunities and choices to make their own learning process much more effective and meaningful for them.