The Hyflex teaching model has been a polarizing concept since Brian Beatty introduced it at San Francisco State University. On the one hand, it offers students the flexibility to attend class in person or at a distance. On the other, many instructors who have tried it found that it is hard to engage both the on-site and the distance students in a class at the same time. The distance students are invariably left to watch lectures passively at a distance, a la emergency remote lecturing during the pandemic.
