A Comprehensive Hybrid and Flexible (‘HyFlex’) Course Architecture for Conceptual Modelling Courses in Information Systems

'HyFlex' is a catchword for course designs in higher education that provide students with the opportunity to attend course sessions in-person as well as remotely ('hybrid') and to change the mode of attending every week based on their circumstances and preferences ('flexible'). Due to the need to teach the complex skill of conceptual enterprise modelling (CEM) through practical exercises and feedback, HyFlex course designs for CEM courses pose several challenges to typical CEM-related learning outcomes. This paper proposes a set of design requirements, principles, and features for a comprehensive HyFlex course architecture for CEM courses. The design requirements, principles, and features evolved through and are evaluated against several iterations of CEM courses across two different programmes (undergraduate and postgraduate), student numbers (ranging from 17 to 121), settings (lecture & workshops, block mode, etc.), and course topics (business process and enterprise architecture modelling). The student performances and course evaluations indicate that the offered courses that instantiated the presented course architecture have been both effective and appreciated by the students. Other instructors can draw on our course architecture to design or adapt their own CEM courses – but also, to an extent, courses with other topics – to the HyFlex paradigm.