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THE COVER STORY

A Quiet Revolution
in the Lecture Hall

How UNISBA Blitar's first hybrid classrooms are reshaping how 2,400 students learn.

Inside  Faculty research · p.6  ·  Student voices · p.12  ·  Ramadan reflections · p.18

Vol. 4 · Issue 14

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UNISBA TODAY

COVER STORY · ACADEMIC LIFE

A Quiet Revolution
in the Lecture Hall

How UNISBA Blitar's first hybrid classrooms are reshaping how 2,400 students learn — and what it means for Islamic higher education.

Above · Second-year accounting students attend a hybrid finance lecture in the Tarbiyah building, with peers joining remotely from across East Java.

On a Tuesday morning in the new wing of the Tarbiyah building, Dr. Hadi Santoso pauses his lecture on Islamic finance and turns toward a wall-mounted screen. Forty-six students fill the room. Another nineteen are watching from home.

Three years ago this would have been impossible. The room didn't exist. The infrastructure didn't exist. And frankly, says Dr. Santoso, the will didn't exist either.

UNISBA Today · Edition 14

By Aisyah Rahmawati  ·  Photographs by Bayu Pratama

Cover Story · April 2026

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"We were not trying to become a tech university," says Rektor Prof. Dr. Ahmad Fauzi. "We were trying to become a better Islamic university. Technology is just the tool."

For students like Aulia Rahmadani, a third-year student from Kediri, the hybrid model has changed everything. She used to miss two lectures a week to care for her younger siblings. Now she joins from home.

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