Hybrid Teaching Practice to Enhance Students’ Engagement: Case of Ibt, Karachi

Abstract

Everybody who has ever taught a class has encountered a circumstance where a few students are more engaged with what goes ahead in the class than others, so during lecture teachers’ association with student to be more alert and energized, that’s why it considered as a positive connection between student engagement and their achievement. Most of time experienced, hesitance of students to make inquiries, talk about topics’ problem or generally take an interest in class. This study provides such a new teaching practice (Hybrid) that enhances students’ attention and actively participates in class by discussion. The hybrid teaching system in this study is defined as a method that introduced industrial professionals as a guest speaker from relevant field as well as continuing regular face-to-face classes. This is qualitative and quantitative or mixed research work, where using 06 questions based close ended questionnaire with five points Likert scale and 02 open-ended questions were asked. The 67 survey forms are filled by attendees out of 73 in guest lecture session. As a result IBT students found this guest speaker session as interesting, highly engaging and deeply learnt by industrial expert to their respective field.