Chapter 10: The Identity of a Hybrid Teacher: Management of Mixed Learning Settings

ICTs have substantially transformed our society. However, in the educational field, until 2019, being a teacher who manages ICTs was quite optional. With the COVID-19 pandemic, most teachers had to become virtual teachers, at least intermittently. This accidental and unexpected situation has impacted teachers, making existing weaknesses in education more visible.

Now more than ever, it is undeniable important to highlight the emergence of a new professional identity, the so-called hybrid teacher. This professional identity combines different teaching methods, resources, and educational activities of different origin and nature—in-person, blended, or online- to optimize students’ learning experiences.

In this chapter, we analyze some positions of identity (I’p) that teachers have developed with ICTs to became hybrid teachers. Likewise, we introduce some training proposals capable of effectively influencing the teacher’s professional identity, such as virtual reality training environments.