Design solutions for hybridised spaces in a learning and teaching context: seven patterns that address social practice, privacy, and participation

This paper outlines the development of a pattern language for design solutions to the emerging challenges of delivering learning and teaching in a hybridised setting. The term ‘hybrid learning spaces’ has become commonplace in recent years and has been loosely used to describe a fusion of learning opportunities and teaching approaches that span physical and virtual spaces. Yet, as others have noted, this is not an unproblematic concept as the evolving nature of hybrid learning spaces and now hyflex (hybrid and flexible) learning opportunities force continued redefinition and refinement of existing terminology. The paper identifies new and emerging challenges of space and place in a learning and teaching context and the effect of recognisable architectural motifs - both technological and physical - that provide affordances for certain types of behaviours. Three key areas are designed for across these patterns: social practice, privacy and participation, and their important relationship with effective pedagogy.