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Online teaching and learning is increasingly common nowadays at many types of higher education institutions, ranging from hybrid/blended courses that offer a combination of face-to-face and online instruction, to fully online experiences and distance learning. The purpose of this article is to firstly outline the main benefits of online teaching and learning. Secondly, the authors survey which of the forms of instruction currently prevails and thirdly, to what extent students’ learning preferences correspond to the selected form of instruction. This survey is conducted both in the Czech Republic and abroad, in this case in Kazakhstan, in order to obtain more reliable results
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Frydrychova Klimova, B., Poulova, P. (2014). Forms of Instruction and Students’ Preferences - A Comparative Study. In: Cheung, S.K.S., Fong, J., Zhang, J., Kwan, R., Kwok, L.F. (eds) Hybrid Learning. Theory and Practice. ICHL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8595. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08961-4_21
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