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During the COVID-19 pandemic and the shutdown measures, many aspects of human life were impacted. The education sector was one of the main fields which were deeply affected. So traditional or classical models of education in general, and especially universities’ models, were unable to ensure their missions using the same way and tools. This paper will analyze the rise of a hybrid model of the higher education system, based on the best practices and strongholds that exist within the classical and the new models. University, as we knew it before, the COVID-19 pandemic will no longer be the same. Furthermore, this paper aims to relate how the higher education system across the world has been forced to deeply change its practices, basis, and methodology, by announcing the first draft of a hybrid model, drawing its sources directly from two main existing models, but with different concept and approach. If the future of higher education will be hybrid, the model will be reconsidered in a global way, as well as e new system, including different ways of teaching, using different tools. Some aspects of this change are still unknown, but it is granted that the role of machines (big data, Internet, social media, etc.) will increase, giving the floor to AI to be predominant.
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Hamidouche, K. (2023). Traditional and Virtual Universities: The Rise of a Hybrid System. In: Roumate, F. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education and Scientific Research. Bridging Human and Machine: Future Education with Intelligence. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8641-3_4
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