Flexible Learning Environments: Minoritized College Students’ Experiences in HyFlex




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Participant: Lorena (Pseudonym) 
Lorena was a first-generation graduate student in an instructional technology master’s 
program at a public university in California. Lorena is of mixed race. Her ancestry included 
Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Italian. Ethnically, she identified as Hispanic but 
places herself at a distance from the Mexican and Indigenous communities, stating: 
I wouldn’t say that I fit in super well with like the Mexican American Community, just 
because things that my family does are just a little bit different. I wouldn’t I fit on super 
well with the Indigenous community either, because it is such a fusion, even though I am 
both of those things and I do identify both of those ways. 
This was not surprising as there was a lot of diversity in each of those groups, but it was 
noteworthy she did not make a similar statement about her Italian and Spanish ancestry and how 
she perceived she fit with those cultures or communities.
Other dimensions of Lorena’s intersectional identities included: “cisgender heterosexual 
female,” a student leader, a godmother, a fiancé, a “great cousin,” and a disabled student with a 
late diagnosis of ADHD. She emphasized she was “very leftist, very liberal and open” and a 
feminist who was not afraid to speak her mind. Interviewing Lorena was very interesting because 
she had a fire and came across as a driven and motivated individual. Even though she counted 
procrastinator as one of her identities, she explained she thrives under pressure and 
communicated a strong sense of agency and self-determination. She has had negative 
experiences in online courses and gave an example of how, in her words, she “hates online 


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courses” because of the compulsory responses to at least two posts by classmates, explaining 
most of those discussions were too superficial, causing students to tune out. She said: 
Online classes sucked. It was always three times the amount of work. It was so much 
reading; it was those two like lame discussion posts where you’re like yeah I can see your 
point that’s great I said this and my response blah blah blah, or like something that was 
not, I never really took anything away from any of the online classes. 
She did acknowledge online courses have gotten better in recent years and shared although 
she was wary of HyFlex initially because of her online experience, she found she was satisfied 
with her experience in her current program.

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