Hybrid Learning and Teaching in Mathematics Courses Due to COVID-19

The educational strategies have changed in Pakistan due to COVID-19. This epidemic covers almost 204 countries and territories all over the world and on 11th March 2020, WHO declared this outbreak as a pandemic. Pakistan has become one of the two hundred and four countries over the world has stopped their educational activities and closed their institutions for unspecified d uration. As we know that spring semester was started in the month of January in Pakistani universities, and had covered almost half path of its journey. In this situation, HEC (Higher Education Commission) announced that universities must convert educational activities in hybrid teaching mode and start online teaching. We made a case study on the Learning Management System (LMS), Campus management System, and WhatsApp etc. Apply these tools on private sector engineering university where two hundred and fifty students enrolled in different mathematics courses. The outcome of this study shows that quick switching to the online education system was little bit difficult but successful. Though in the beginning, there were some problems for teachers and students both but overall the experience was good. Government of Pakistan will reopen the education institute in the month of September and in these days we are quite close to resume educational activities as per the regular practice. The aim of this study is to support to continue the hybrid teaching mode at tertiary level in the regular teaching practice specifically of Mathematics courses. In hybrid teaching mode, the ratio of face to face teaching is seventy percent and online tools and teaching strategies used thirty percent. This method of teaching and learning keep students connected with their teachers. Lastly, we suggest that there is still a room for betterment in LMS. The result of this study shows that students’ performance in mathematics class and exam has been improved by using different application, software and gadgets. E-learning teaching and learning method will be beneficial strategy.