Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
COVID-19 pandemic; asynchronous instruction; flipped classroom; multimodal strategies (online teaching); University of Baltimore (MD)—Helen P. Denit Honors Program
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Education
“To Seek A Newer World”: Honors In Virtual Reality, Betsy Greenleaf Yarrison
“To Seek A Newer World”: Honors In Virtual Reality, Betsy Greenleaf Yarrison
Honors in Practice Online Archive
Honors education was never intended to be a virtual offering; it takes intimate, three-dimensional, communal, and intellectual interaction among faculty and students to tackle wicked problems. The COVID-19 crisis forced honors educators into an extreme reboot, extracting courses from comfortable working spaces and relocating them to strange new platforms for remote, computer-mediated instruction. For many faculty, the 2020 pandemic introduced online instruction for the first time. Toward this end, many novices were able to brilliantly reimagine and re-engineer their courses while others struggled. In this essay, the author points out that higher education has always adapted new technologies, asserting that …