Jeffrey van Kampen

Blended Learning: Designed the platform for hybrid education

I designed the blended learning platform for the University of Amsterdam, working in the FDMCI team. The platform brings digital and in-class materials together to support hybrid, didactic teaching. My role was to define the overall interface design, navigation, and information architecture, so that students know exactly where to go between online and classroom environments.

Project

Challenge

How can we design a digital education platform that bridges online and in-class learning, so students get more clarity between environments and where teachers can manage coursework?

Pain Points

  • Managing separate workflows for online and physical classrooms
  • Making the switch between online and in-class material
  • Students want more progress and feedback
  • Teachers want to share coursework in a central platform
  • Education material is asynchronous between physical classes
  • Teachers have more workload managing two formats at once
  • Materials aren't organized in one place, students struggle to find material
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Solution

I designed an education platform that gives students a central place to move between online and in-class material, and gives teachers one place to manage it. This cuts the extra workload of maintaining separate platforms. Students always know where to go, whether they're preparing for a class or reviewing after one.


A course overview connects each class session to its material in sequence: readings, slides, and assignments are shown directly under the week they belong to. This gives students a clear path to follow within one platform, rather than looking across separate tools or updates.

The key decision was to centralize coursework management for teachers, reducing the need to duplicate content across separate online and offline workflows. Teachers can upload and organize material once, and it becomes available consistently across formats. Because the platform is built around this shared structure, it stays useful even when classes shift online. The result makes hybrid learning feel like one continuous experience, rather than a search across scattered classes.

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