Blended learning for the “multi-track” undergraduate students in Ghana in an adverse era

•Blended learning can help prepare the minds of learners to embrace a technology-oriented pedagogy post-pandemic.•A multi-track year-round education (MT-YRE) system fostered face-to-face learning during the COVID-19 pandemic but was accompanied by contextual challenges.•Blended learning can be a “game changer” in this pandemic crisis for a developing country like Ghana.•Blended learning seems to be the future of education in the post-COVID world.•There is a need to investigate and test sophisticated models of blended learning that are situational for deep and meaningful learning.