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Newsletter – Vol 3 – September 2023
Newsletter – Vol 4 – October 2024
Result I: Compendium of Hybrid Teaching Practices
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Don’t miss the chance to benefit from the experience of your peers and gain some ideas for your own hybrid teaching scenario!
Are you an enthusiastic teacher wishing to introduce hybrid scenarios into your lessons and looking for some inspirations? Then have a look into the collection of exciting hybrid teaching practices below that were designed and implemented by teachers across different Europe’s countries, such as Belgium, France, Germany, Lithuania and others, and compiled by the HYBOT team. This Compendium showcases, on the one hand, 14 case studies of hybrid teaching and learning, each designed and implemented by practitioners across Europe. Each case study covers various aspects of hybrid teaching settings, including the general framework, teacher motivations, participant demographics, technologies employed, pedagogical approaches, time commitments, and reflections from both students and teachers.
On the other hand, the Compendium includes 13 hybrid, blended and online use cases developed and implemented by enthusiastic teachers within the HYBOT consortium. These teachers actively participated in project activities and reflected their experiences through these case studies, contributing valuable insights from their journey. A particular highlight of the HYBOT-style use cases is the integration of chatbots designed and implemented to support various learning objectives.

Result II: Chatbot development tool
For which educational purposes can conversational chatbots be used? Harvesting feedback, or answering frequently asked questions, or supporting interaction? HYBOT partners identified different application settings and developed 5 small-scale chatbot pilots in English as well as in their native languages, which are German, French, Estonian, Lithuanian and Portuguese.
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How to use the chatbot development tool for your educational project:
In the Hybot project, we create chatbots using the chatbot development tool Melibo (www.melibo.de). Melibo offers a practical, accessible way to explore the potential of chatbots in education. It supports your teaching practice by providing a free sandbox environment to design and test chatbots for hybrid learning. You can experiment with features such as conversational flow design, chatbot customisation, and access to basic analytics, making it an effective tool for enhancing student engagement and support.Â
To try out Melibo and create your own learning chatbots, please send us you request using the contact form below, and we will reach back.

Result III: Open training program on chatbots creation
The HYBOT training program is an all-round solution for teachers wishing to design and develop their own chatbots to enhance their lessons. Our training program combines technological and pedagogical know-how: teachers can learn about the chatbot workflow design, and how to create pedagogical settings to be supported with chatbots!Â
The pilot training programme took place between January 2024 and September 2024 with over 70 international partipants. The successful results from this phase can be found under Project Result 4. You may modify and reuse the following User Guide, which was used during our pilot phase, for your own institution’s setting.Â
Open Source Training Programme
Our Hybot Training Programme is available for everybody. You may reuse our courses and materials listed here below. The open courses on this website are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license, which allows you to share, copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided you follow these conditions: appropriate credit must be given, including a link to the license and an indication of any changes made; the material may not be used for commercial purposes; and if you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. For more information, please refer to the Creative Commons license details. By accessing and using these courses, you agree to comply with these terms. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.
Download the HYBOT training programme in .mbz format:Â
You can download the three courses individually in .mbz format by clicking on the respective button below. The .mbz file format is specific to Moodle, a widely used open source learning management system. These .mbz files can be imported directly into your institution’s Moodle (version 4.3 Build 20240902 or later) to seamlessly transfer and independently run the courses.
Enrol and participate in the the Hybot Training Programme
All three courses of the HYBOT open training programme are available in the MOOC Platform of University of Aberta (https://aulaberta.uab.pt/). To enrol and participate in each course separately please use the following links:
Hybot – Programme © 2024 by Hybot is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Â

Result IV: Piloted chatbot-based hybrid teaching scenarios
How can chatbots, in fact, support hybrid teaching scenarios in higher education? HYBOTÂ investigated this in an empirical way! We invited enthusiastic teachers from our institutions to design their own chatbot-based scenarios for hybrid teaching and pilot them with real students! These pedagogical experiences demonstrate the viability of the chatbot-based hybrid approach for higher education!
Discover how educators have planned and developed chatbot-supported hybrid teaching scenarios that foster deeper engagement and transformative learning experiences in higher education. This document offers a rich collection of creative approaches to integrating chatbots into teaching, providing a valuable resource for educators looking to innovate in their hybrid teaching practices.
Download the Chatbot-supported Scenarios in other languages below