Hybrid learning experience

Hybrid education principally provides lectures online via captured content through a virtual learning environment, for example, voice over PowerPoint, podcast etc.

In most cases for semester 1, lectures will not be timetabled for face-to-face delivery but will be delivered in this online format via captured content. We will communicate our plans for Semester 2 in due course, which will be based on the pandemic situation and government advice. Core programme materials including guided learning and other resources are also provided on the virtual learning environment. Given the risk of further Covid-19 lockdowns, the hybrid education model has also been designed by the University so that your course can be delivered fully online for at least short-term periods (and in many cases long terms periods) should the University be subject to stringent local or national lockdown restrictions that might prevent access to campus facilities.

Most tutorials/seminars/workshops, lab-based, studio-based and simulation-based sessions are currently timetabled for in-person delivery. These will be delivered in accordance with government guidance. Students will be expected to attend these face-to-face sessions, however, where you are unable to attend due to extenuating Covid-19 related exceptions or other agreed extenuating circumstances, online access to these sessions will also be provided where possible.

In the event of a Covid-19 lockdown which would prevent face-to-face sessions, the University has measures in place to ensure that such sessions can either be delivered via an alternative online format or rescheduled for delivery at a later point in the academic year.

All assessments in hybrid education are administered online using the virtual learning environment in semester 1. We may decide to move to online assessments in semester 2 as well depending on the pandemic situation and government advice.