Tag: Dominican University

• Online Learning Communities with a Dominican Flair

  

  Online Learning Communities with a Dominican Flair: Arguing for applying the Dominican ethos to online higher education CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Claire Noonan (Dominican University) Introduction It seems that everywhere one looks in the world of contemporary higher education, someone is making an argument for the elimination of faculty in favor of technology as the […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 15, 2016

  Communication Studies, Higher Education, Internet Studies

  charism, college, common good, Community, dialogue, Dominican, Dominican University, faculty development, higher education, MOOCs, online, online communities, online community, online education, online learning, online learning community, relationship, relationship-centered, relationship-centered education, social media, university

• 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 […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 19, 2014

  Communication Studies, Higher Education, Internet Studies

  Catholic, Catholic approach, Catholic higher education, Catholic institutions, Catholic social teaching, Catholic university, Collegium, digital divide, Dominican University, EDUCAUSE, IT, MOOCs, online community, online education, online learning, online learning community, online teaching, pedagogy, SPOCs, technology, tools

• Online Learning Communities: A Dominican Conversation

  

  At my school on Tuesday, September 23rd, Dominican University hosted our fifth annual Caritas Veritas Symposium. These symposiums are times for our community of faculty, staff, and students to reflect upon the university’s Catholic mission of care and truth, of working to create a more just and humane world. There are presentations, discussions, and activities […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 24, 2014

  Communication Studies

  anonymity, asynchronicity, Caritas Veritas, Catholic ethos, Catholic higher education, Catholic social teaching, communication, Community, computer mediated communication, contemplation, discussion, Dominican University, fun, microaggressions, MOOCs, online communities, online community, online courses, online education, online learning communities, online learning community, play, Presence, reciprocity, Relationships, repercussions, social justice

• Affordances & Constraints Communication Model

  At my university, we are moving towards more technologically enhanced teaching and learning.  Along with my colleague from the School of Education, I am helping to oversee the faculty development of online and blended instruction.  We are working on ways to better improve our courses’ universal design, such as through multimedia presentations.  The goal is […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 14, 2013

  Communication Studies

  affordances, blended learning, Camtasia, communication, constraints, Dominican University, education, online learning

• How People Make Sense of Virtual Worlds — and Why It Matters

  This video was produced by Roskilde University, with assistance from Dominican University, to summarize and even illustrate some of the findings from my research study, Virtual Worlds Entertainment. In this video I discuss what I had done, what I had learned, and perhaps what others can learn from it all.

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 16, 2012

  Virtual Worlds

  Dominican University, Roskilde University, Virtual worlds, Virtual Worlds Research Group