How challenging? Barriers for teachers in institutional implementation of blended learning

Figures & data

Table 1. Main themes, frequency, and examples of representative excerpts.

Main theme	Frequency	Representative interview excerpts
Overall teacher perceptions	6	“Blended learning is … very useful … . Our islands are very dispersed … students (who) live in the island(s) cannot come to daily classes…”
Teacher resistance	5	“I feel fresh school leavers doing their undergraduate studies (in blended mode) wouldn’t be good, and I don’t think the learning quality would be good.”
Teacher low self-efficacy	6	“I actually don’t know what I don’t know … . it’s really difficult to say that I need support from a specific area.”
Increase teacher load	6	“I think, overall, I spend more time for teaching of alternative mode (blended) subjects.”
Policy issues	7	“Another issue is, as a university, lacking a strategy or policy for blended teaching.”
Lack of readiness	6	“One difficulty is we don’t have readily available simulations and videos to use for online teaching.”