The Future of Lecture Rooms in Higher Education: A Study on the Essential Components of Successful Hybrid Learning Spaces
Sjöberg, Daniel (2023)
Sjöberg, Daniel
2023
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2023051310529
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2023051310529
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, a lot of trials and errors have been made when universities around the world have tried to accomplish a decent hybrid lecture room experience. This thesis implements a survey study with the research question “What is needed to build an optimal hybrid lecture room in Higher Education?”. The survey will investigate the experience and feedback from the hybrid lecture room users at Hanken School of Economics. The result is compared and analyzed with the current situation at Hanken and how other universities have built their hybrid lecture rooms. Research that has been made earlier around the topic of hybrid learning is presented and analyzed as well. The research is made with four main areas in consideration: Technical issues, user issues, support challenges and pedagogical challenges. The conclusions are, to build and prepare an optimal hybrid lecture experience, both the technical setup and the course structure needs to be optimized for the hybrid lecture purpose. The theories and guidelines need to be implemented for one optimized room, trying to make several rooms on a decent level is not recommended. Several screens, cameras and ceiling microphones are crucial as well as a room system to control all the equipment. The hybrid lecture room needs either a hired technician to manually control everything or an advanced automated system probably based on AI or Machine learning.