The first research study I did in graduate school was on why people identified with individuals they only knew from the media. It would become my first ICA conference presentation — before PowerPoints were common! I first interviewed people to understand who they were identifying with and why they were doing so. Based on those…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
