Teaching and Learning in the Age of COVID19: Faith-Based, Online and Emergency Remote

by Sebastian Mahfood, Timothy Westbrook (Editor), Victoria Dunnam (Editor)

Over the past two decades, a generation of educational technologists and instructional designers have been working in our theological schools across the United States to assist faculty in the use of appropriate technologies within their teaching and learning environments. Originally, the classrooms in which they worked were of the brick-and-mortar kind with faculty and students physically showing up to a certain space within a scheduled time of the week. Increasingly, the classrooms have become of the digital kind with faculty and students meeting in a virtual commons over the expanse of a given week. With the rise of COVID19 in March, 2020, and the subsequent lockdown, faculty were asked to engage their students via Emergency Remote Learning, which required everyone to learn on the fly how to develop and manage a virtual classroom in real time. This book offers assistance to faculty as we in the spring of 2021 bring closure to a full year of digitally engaging our brick-and-mortar students.

222 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 7, 2021

About the author

Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, serves as Vice-President of Administration at Holy Apostles College & Seminary in Cromwell, CT, Provost of the Sacred Heart Institute for the Ongoing Formation of Clergy in Huntington, NY, and Director of the Catholic Distance Learning Network of the National Catholic Educational Association’s Seminary Department.

He is a Lay Dominican of the Queen of the Holy Rosary Chapter in the Province of St. Albert the Great.

He holds a doctorate in postcolonial literature and theory from Saint Louis University (2006) along with several master’s degrees in the fields of comparative literature, philosophy, theology, and educational technology.

Reviews

[Alina Stout · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a niche topic of interest, but it has good and thoughtful research and advice. I’m going to have to read it again in the future!