For a year now, I have been working through some ideas on how to ensure that a Catholic higher education institution, such as my own, maintains its Catholic identity when offering more online courses and programs. In particular, I wanted to work through how to ensure that the focus on communities and relationship-centered teaching and…
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Catholic Identity and Online Education
Originally posted on Daily Theology:
What is it that makes an education Catholic? Can one get a Catholic education online? Would a degree from an online program be any more or less Catholic than one from a “traditional” college or university? As I was thinking about this post for today, I wanted in particular to…
Relating Sacramentally in Online Teaching
Originally posted on Daily Theology:
By Daniella Zsupan-Jerome, Ph.D. What does sacramentality look like in an online classroom? Stephen Okey’s recent reflection on “Catholic Identity and Online Education” is a timely conversation starter, and I appreciate his framework of focusing especially on five key areas of concern around Catholic identity. Of these five, the third…
On Online Education and Catholic Social Teaching
Earlier this fall, I attended the annual EDUCAUSE convention in Orlando, Florida. I have written about my experience at the convention as it relates to my ongoing project investigating the relationship between online learning communities and Catholic social teaching as an approach to designing higher education. As part of my attendance at the convention, I…
Creating Classrooms for Social Justice | Edutopia
The author, Dr. Dell’Angelo, makes some great points about how to use the idea of social justice to structure course content and course design. Her work also aligns with what I have been looking at in terms of applying Catholic social teaching and approaches to higher education to online learning communities. I am glad to…
An Autoethnography of Collegium – Applications for Higher Education
As reported by The Atlantic, secular beliefs are on the rise among young people, and conservative Christians are withdrawing from secular society whilst demanding their religious beliefs be tolerated, even if it means discrimination and intolerance. And this week’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby and other similar businesses that are owned by…
An Autoethnography of Collegium – Final Day
Final Day: Thursday, June 26th Here we are, at the end of a very long week. Long but fruitful. I do not regret coming, although I will be very happy to once again be sleeping in my bed, with the nice padding. After days of discussing, debating, defining what is Catholic intellectualism, Catholic social teaching,…
An Autoethnography of Collegium – Day Five
Day 5: Wednesday, June 25th A normal academic conference might go for three, four days. A big one could be upwards of five days. Each day would have numerous panels and presentations scheduled, giving you the opportunity to go where you want, when you want, for however long you want. And if you want, they…
An Autoethnography of Collegium – Day Three
Day 3: Monday, June 23rd The reason I came to Collegium is for a specific purpose, one that could potentially help my university. So it is interesting that what I have gotten out of it so far has been more relevant to a research project that has been in the back of my mind for…
An Autoethnography of Collegium – Day Two
Day 2: Sunday, June 22nd On the topic of mass… I am still uncomfortable joining in on the spiritual sessions and Catholic Eucharist ceremonies that are scheduled for this colloquium. I feel like an intruder, an interloper, a negative presence. There is nothing that anyone here has said or done that has made me feel…
