Tag: higher education

• A Manifesto for 21st Century Higher Education

  

  Looking over alum surveys for my school, thinking about what the future of higher education is, and am finding that both undergraduate (UG) and graduate (G) alums seem to want the same types of knowledges and skills, just in more and more specific contexts that aid their careers. I did a quick and dirty content […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 5, 2022

  Higher Education

  careers, college, communication, community college, experiential learning, higher education, liberal arts and sciences, literacies, skills, technical school, trade school, university

• Podcasts as Public Intellectualism

  

  In the thirty-eighth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and CarrieLynn Reinhard present an academic panel from the 2017 Central States Communication Association Conference. On this panel, CarrieLynn is joined by Melody Hoffmann of the podcast Femnist Killjoys, PhD and Molly Turner of the podcast Swipe Right on Molly & Thomas. W. […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 5, 2017

  Higher Education, Internet Studies

  academics, empowerment, higher education, literacies, media literacy, podcasting, podcasts, promotion and tenure, Public discourse, public engagement, public intellectualism, public scholarship, scholarship, The Pop Culture Lens

• 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

• Online Learning Communities with a Catholic Flair

  

  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 […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 22, 2015

  Communication Studies, Higher Education

  Catholic, Catholic ethos, Catholic higher education, Community, higher education, online communities, online education, online learning, online teaching, relationship-centered, Relationships, social justice, social teaching

• Online Learning Communities Polls

  

  For awhile now I have been preoccupied with thoughts about the future of education, and the extent to which we want to rely on online education; over this past year, this train of thought has been traveling through areas of higher education and Catholic universities for how to better create online learning communities. Ideas from […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 8, 2015

  Higher Education

  Catholic ethos, Catholic social teaching, Catholic university, higher education, online communities, online education, online learning

• Community in Online Learning: Thoughts from EDUCAUSE

  

  Every year, there is a special gathering of individuals interested in improving the technologies of higher education. Faculty, IT administrators, inventors, entrepreneurs, the Big Dogs (i.e. Google, Microsoft, Dell, etc) convene for several days of talks, presentations, pitches, sales, and ideas. This get annual, international together is sponsored by EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit dedicated to improving […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 12, 2014

  Communication Studies, Higher Education

  active learning, backchannel, blended courses, Catholic higher education, Catholic social teaching, Community, digital divide, Education 1.0, Education 2.0, Education 3.0, EDUCAUSE, game design, gamification, higher education, Massive Open Online Course, MOOC, Ohio State University, online education, online learning, online learning community, online learning environment, participatory design, Relationships, Small Private Online Course, social justice, social media, social networks, SPOC, Web 2.0

• 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 […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 30, 2014

  Communication Studies, Higher Education

  Catholic, Catholic social teaching, Catholicism, higher education, online education, online learning, online learning communities, social justice, social teaching

• What Makes For a Good Online Community?

  If you have been following my posts this summer (summing up here), then you know one of the issues I am currently investigating is how to translate the Catholic approach to higher education from a face-to-face context to an online context.  For us at Dominican University, that means a continued focus on our relationship-centered approach […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 20, 2014

  Communication Studies, Internet Studies

  Catholic ethos, Catholic higher education, Catholic institutions, Catholic social teaching, college, higher education, online community, online education, online learning communities, relationship-centered education, Relationships

• An Autoethnography of Collegium – Day One

  

  This post is a deviation from my normal posts to this blog.  Instead of discussing research and ideas on various things media and pop culture, I am instead going to use this post to reflect on my week long excursion to a colloquium known as Collegium.  My position is with a Catholic university, and this […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 21, 2014

  Communication Studies

  academic freedom, Catholic, Catholic institutions, Catholic university, Collegium, compassionate criticism, constructive criticism, creativity, criticism, curiosity, deconstruction, dialogue, hermeneutic of suspicion, hermeneutic of wonder, higher education, intellectualism, promotion, Public discourse, public intellectuals, science, strategy, tenure