Teaching is the MACS!: Working methods for activating hybrid education

Activating (distance) learning and self-directed learning: a 'match made in heaven'? Certainly! This combination stimulates sustainable and deep learning and allows your students to take charge of their own learning process.

But what are important didactic points of attention? And how do you work this out in concrete terms?

Using the MACS reflection framework, we zoom in on the four main dimensions: Motivating, Activating, Coaching and Structuring. You use each of these dimensions in a targeted manner to create powerful learning environments and to stimulate competences for self-directed learning in a feasible way.

You will also find inspiration for numerous didactic teaching methods that encourage in-depth learning. In addition to a general elaboration, concrete practical examples and variants, you can read more about the possibilities in a broad educational context. You can use the didactic teaching methods and digital tools to apply and process learning content in an activating way in the classroom, during flexible hours and in online education. Even better: you can partly extend your approach in the classroom to distance learning, and vice versa.

This widely applicable 'hybrid' approach offers many possibilities for various subjects, contents and levels of education. In addition, you increase the self-directing ability of students.