The Effectiveness of Hybrid Teaching and Learning Method during Pandemic and Its Challenges

Covid 19 pandemic has changed the way educators and stakeholders around the world, especially in Indonesia, applied education methods to students. Students were obliged to attend physically to school in order to learn. However, during the pandemic and endemic of Covid 19, many synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning methods were applied. One of them is hybrid learning. Even though the educational field has already been adapting to e-learning for more than a decade since the internet became essential, hybrid teaching and learning implementation was just recently becoming widespread and official throughout many educational institutions. During its implementation and adaptation process, either students or educators must have encountered many challenges. This study simply points to the collection of challenges that the educators and students faced during hybrid learning and seeks whether its implementation brought effectiveness in the teaching and learning process. This research employed descriptive qualitative that utilized library research methodology. The findings show that there are challenges faced by both educators and students, and also it is indeed an effective solutive method.