How do We Conduct Teaching at Universities in the Future? A Study Illustrating How, Where, and Why Teachers and Students Disagree About Hybrid Teaching Formats

This empirical study investigates students’ and teachers’ preferences and experiences with hybrid teaching formats at the university level. In the presented teaching format, students and teachers attend sessions either on campus or online. Some students always participated from campus, others changed between campus and being online. The research shows surprising insights: students and teachers clearly disagreed about the experienced usefulness of the hybrid teaching formats, and whether to use hybrid teaching formats in the future. Out of 849 respondents, app. 80% of teachers prefer to teach at campus, app. 80% of students want the hybrid solution, despite the technical and pedagogical issues encountered. Findings show a need for the development of hybrid pedagogies and didactics preparing teachers for teaching in hybrid teaching formats and point to the need for a more general discussion about how universities and society at large want to conduct teaching in higher education in the future.