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Flawed solutions: Hybrid learning advocacy needs to take professor labour into account

By Meera Eragoda, Editor-in-Chief If you’re in the SFU student groups on Facebook, you may have seen a petition calling for SFU to implement hybrid learning. Its two main demands are to mandate the recording of lectures and tutorials and for instructional staff to have both in-person and online options for lectures, tutorials, and office hours. Students who want to learn in-person can, and students who can’t, don’t have to. Sounds like a dream, right? Well, maybe on the surface. In reality, none of this takes into account the structure of universities or the pressure on professors and TAs. It’s been…

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